Project 460990

Beginning in 2015, eighteen $2M multi-year grants were awarded under the EHSI across three key areas: •Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease •Intersectoral Prevention Research, and •Environmental Urban Health Research Consortium The core research components of these grants were focused on etiological research on environment-microbiome-gene-interactions, data platform enhancements and measurement, and intersectoral prevention research. These grants are now nearing completion, and the objectives of the proposed meeting are to: •Create an interactive digital platform to report on and share grant activities, accomplishments, and findings; this platform will have mirror sites in English and French. •Inform a future research, policy, and program agenda for increasing equity in environmental health while promoting healthy environments at large. We propose a series of activities to maximize the participation of as many attendees as possible, including pre-meeting surveys, a digital meeting platform, and an in-person 2-day workshop. Key outcomes include: summarized survey results to inform workshop sessions and final reports, white papers and publications; recorded presentations hosted on a long-term site as a legacy for the EHSI initiative; knowledge dissemination products such as media releases, journal papers and/or commentaries, white papers on key priorities for environmental health research, policy, practice and equity.