Apply for CIEHS Membership

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Please review the application instructions below and submit your completed application via email to Center Director J. Christopher States [jcstates@louisville.edu] and the CIEHS email account [ciehs@louisville.edu]. Once received, the application is reviewed by the CIEHS Executive Committee.   

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Letter with the following information:

Letter requesting CIEHS membership addressed to CIEHS Director, J. Christopher States.  The membership letter needs to include your research interests/activities in environmental health science and indicate that you will participate in CIEHS activities (RIG meetings, seminars), seek collaboration with other CIEHS members, acknowledge the P30 grant in publications, and each fiscal year, confirm Center membership and provide accomplishments. In addition, the membership letter should state which Research Interest Group (RIG) you would like to join as your primary RIG.  There are currently three RIG’s at CIEHS and a description of each is located below. 

  • Precision Environmental Health and Exposome
    • Addresses the individual variability associated with responses to environmental exposures
    • Complements the Precision Medicine Initiative
    • Goal is to understand individual risk to prevent disease
    • Integrates Genetics, Epigenetics and Omics Data: G x E x D
    • Getting beyond single exposures: totality of exposures across life course
  • Mechanistic and Translational Toxicology
    • The right to a safe, healthy, productive and sustainable environment for all, where "environment" is considered in its totality to include ecological (biological), physical (natural and built), social, political, aesthetic, and economic environments
    • Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged population
    • Heat related illness/weather event related illness (e.g., storms, wildfires, etc.)
    • Food-, water-, and vector-borne diseases
    • Mental health Impacts
    • Poor maternal and birth outcomes/childhood development
  • Environmental Epidemiology and Population Health  
    • Molecular mechanisms that underlie agent toxicity: how is gene expression impacted by exposures
    • Data generation can be translated to human biology
    • Utilizing innovative new approaches to study environmental exposures (e.g., computational toxicology utilizing AI/ML with existing and new data sets, Microphysiological 3D systems derived from IPSC's).

View more information about the RIGs on the CIEHS website about

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NIH Biosketch

Please also include a copy of your NIH biosketch with your application.

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