At the core of the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research is our NIEHS-funded Center on Health and Environment Across the LifeSpan (HEALS). The Institute’s mission is bolstered by the overall goals of the Center to:
- Use a team-science, life-stage approach to identify how early life exposures contribute to disease and health inequities later in life
- Use a transdisciplinary, big data science approach to understand how nutrition, the social environment, and other modifiers contribute to individual susceptibility
- Translate research into novel, evidence-based approaches to disease prevention. Through the Center, we are able to provide researchers from a diverse array of disciplines access to the environmental health expertise and technology housed within the Institute through pilot grants, collaborations, and training