The Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute engages researchers and citizen scientists to learn how our natural, social, and personal environments impact health. With Louisville as an Urban Laboratory, Institute researchers partner with community members and policy makers to discover how to build healthier cities.
Our Mission
With the city of Louisville as our urban laboratory, we will explore, learn, and understand how our natural, social, and personal environments impact human health and chronic disease. In partnership with communities, stakeholders, and visiting scholars, Institute researchers will study how environmental differences create health disparities between communities. Our work will bring greater understanding to how natural, social, and personal environments impact individual wellbeing and disease risk.
Our Work
The Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute's research unites a multidisciplinary group of physicians, scientists, chemists, engineers, epidemiologists, economists, psychologists, statisticians, sociologists, and community members to turn scientific discovery into actionable knowledge that can help us to build healthier cities by
- learning the effects of our environments on health,
- increasing understanding of environmental health risks,
- studying how differences in urban environments give rise to health disparities,
- investigating how changes in environments affect health outcomes and disease risk,
- creating a new curriculum for environmental health research, and
- developing new models for healthy, urban living.
