Welcome to the Health and Environment Research Center
The Health and Environment Research Center (HERC) at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences was established in 2016 to bridge academic research in environment and its impact on health. It wants to be in the forefront of interdisciplinary research and education in environmental health engineering. The centre embraces faculty and students from across the university whose research dedicated to solving some of the most pressing environmental challenges.
Our portfolio of multidisciplinary research covers topics including monitoring environmental pollutants, public health, environmental exposure, and providing executive and practical education programs.
Our vision is:
We work to build a healthy community with healthy environment. Our center comprised of specialists and advanced facilities committed to innovative thinking and high quality results so as to produce a broad, trans-disciplinary and actionable understanding of the origins, characteristics, environmental impact, and human health consequences of environmental exposure.
Our mission is:
- Investigating the adverse health effects of the environmental exposure.
- Identifying high impact health research that changes practice, changes policy, and changes lives.
- Promoting the public health through learning, discovery, and communication.
- Administrating continuing education courses to help leaders and policy makers address critical challenges in public health and environment.
- Working with stakeholders inside the health system and innovators from the private sector.