Centers and Institutes
Centers and Institutes bring faculty, staff, students, and funders together around common areas of interest. Centers and institutes complement departmental work by providing flexible, mission-driven structures that connect university expertise with real-world impact.
Centers and Institutes in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
CAAT seeks to redefine the future of scientific research by leading the development and use of reduction, refinement, and replacement alternatives in research, testing, and education to protect and enhance the health of the public.
Center for A Livable Future
CLF works with students, educators, researchers, policymakers, advocacy organizations, and communities to build a healthier, more equitable and resilient food system. CLF has been advocating for food system change and protecting the public’s health for more than 25 years.
Center for Smart Transportation
CST is a Tier 1 University Transportation Center funded by the Department of Transportation. CCST’s research, education, leadership, and technology transfer programs and activities are inspired by the urgent call for evidence-based research that goes beyond scientific merits, focuses on solutions, is practice-ready, and will result in changes in transportation policy and practice.
Center for Health Security
CHS explores how new policy approaches, scientific advances, and technological innovations can strengthen health security and save lives. Our research focuses on improving organizations, systems, and tools to prevent and respond to outbreaks and other public health crises. Our mission is to protect people’s health from epidemics and disasters and ensure that communities are resilient to major challenges.
Institute for Planetary Health
IPH comprises dedicated faculty, researchers, and students who are committed to working across disciplines to address the urgency of the Earth crisis and its impacts on humanity.
Community Health: Addressing Regional Maryland Environmental Determinants of Disease
CHARMED builds capacity in community-engaged research aimed at understanding the mechanistic links between environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes and translates these findings into action to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable individuals in communities across the greater Maryland region. We are building partnerships with communities of the greater Baltimore region (from Washington, DC, through Baltimore, MD, and including some regions of Pennsylvania) to address their environmental concerns.
Education & Research Center for Occupational Safety & Health
The ERC Prepare professionals in the field of occupational and environmental safety and health in the areas of research, education, service, and policy development. The center works with five academic programs that comprise the Johns Hopkins Education and Research Center (ERC) for Occupational Safety and Health: occupational and environmental hygiene, occupational and environmental medicine, occupational and environmental health nursing, biomarkers of exposure and susceptibility, occupational injury epidemiology and prevention, and continuing education and outreach.
P.O.E. Total Worker Health® Center
The POE Center focuses on work-related mental health issues and solutions. The POE Center is dedicated to improving the mental health of the nation’s workforce through research, education, outreach, and evaluation activities that integrate Psychosocial factors, Organizational conditions, and Environmental exposures as key domains of worker health. The POE Center focuses on mental health and substance use prevention and treatment among workers in several broad cohorts including health care workers and veterinarians, frontline and essential workers, and workers spanning the food system.