What's Here?

This website contains integrated material on projects related to the science of human exposure assessment. The scope includes pretty much everything related to understanding or estimating human exposure.

We host documents, software, and data sets related to specific projects that can be downloaded from the site. In addition, we manage a site-wide bibliography of exposure-related citations, as well as links to external resources of interest to exposure scientists.

The science of human exposure to toxic environmental pollutants is a growing area with strong links to the following areas:

• occupational health
• industrial hygiene
• risk analysis
• environmental epidemiology
• biostatistics
• environmental health science
• public health policy
• sub-disciplines of civil and environmental engineering

The current emphasis of the site is on airborne contaminants and environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in particular, a.k.a, secondhand smoke (SHS) or passive smoke. Current projects include indoor air quality and inhalation exposure models, ETS monitoring surveys and experiments, and data resources that can be used to develop inputs for deterministic models.

In the future, this site will offer an increasing variety of research projects along with freely-available research article reprints, preprints, reports, presentations, software, and data sets, which can be downloaded or viewed online.

To facilitate communication between researchers, registered users of this website can attach comments to any posting. We have also created an on-line forum for general discussion, announcements, new ideas, and/or recent research results. As needed, we will establish discussion forums focused on specific projects.