Facility Core C--Environmental Modeling & Exposure Assessment

环境建模和暴露评估机制(EMEAF)的主要目标是促进 中心调查人员通过提供所需的各种服务和设备来进行研究 了解农村环境中发现的污染物与其对人类的影响之间的关系 健康。EMEAF通过为中心调查人员提供以下服务来实现这一目标： ？具有成本效益的仪器设备出借服务， ？污染物和受影响人口的建模和展示指南， *关于发起和开展以人口为基础的研究的建议；以及 ？在测量环境污染物方面的专业知识。 特别是，EMEAF为开始建设的年轻调查人员提供必要的支持和指导 从事研究工作。EMEAF的调查人员和工作人员由具有环境专业知识的个人组成 空气采样、工业卫生实践、健康物理学、空气扩散模型、计算流体 动态建模、地理信息系统开发、流行病学评估和 化学分析方法。该团队寻求为中心提供必要的支持和指导 以实现该中心的总体目标。此外，EMEAF还提供了 在中心内发挥领导作用，协助调查人员努力识别和获取适当的 研究人口和健康登记册，以便有效地将环境毒物暴露与 人群中可能出现的不良健康后果。EMEAF工作人员还将努力增加 通过改进方法进行流行病学研究，以减少接触错误分类。

The primary goal of the Environmental Modeling and Exposure Assessment Facility (EMEAF) is to facilitate the research efforts of Center investigators by providing a variety of services and equipment needed to understand the relationship between contaminants found in rural environments and their impact on human health. The EMEAF accomplishes this goal by offering Center investigators: ¿ A cost-effective instrumentation lending service, ¿ Guidance on modeling and display of contaminants and affected populations, ¿ Advice on initiating and conducting population-based studies, and ¿ Expertise in measuring environmental contaminants. In particular, the EMEAF provides essential support and direction to young investigators beginning to build research careers. The investigators and staff of the EMEAF consist of individuals with expertise in ambient air sampling, industrial hygiene practices, health physics, air dispersion modeling, computational fluid dynamics modeling, development of geographical information systems, epidemiological assessments, and chemical analytical methods. This team seeks to give essential support and direction to Center investigators in order to achieve the overall goals of the Center. Furthermore, the EMEAF provides a leadership role within the Center by aiding investigators in their efforts to identify and access appropriate study populations and health registries in order to effectively link environmental toxicant exposures with possible adverse health outcomes within populations. EMEAF staff will also work to increase the power of epidemiologic studies by improving methods to reduce exposure misclassification.