EHF has awarded the Hebrew University a grant for the establishment of The Hebrew University Center of Excellence in Agriculture and Environmental Health.
The Center’s activities include:
- Evaluating the fate of active pharmaceutical compounds and endocrine disrupting compounds present in reclaimed wastewater used for irrigation in the agro-environment;
- Studying the uptake of organic pollutants by plants and their introduction into the food chain;
- Human and livestock exposure to pesticides and pharmaceutical compounds.
EHF University Centers of Excellence develop a range of research and non-research-based activities that are designed to advance the field of Environment and Health. They explore new scientific methods, create new knowledge, and share information with the scientific community and the general public.
The Center is led by Prof. Benny Chefetz from the Department of Soil and Water Sciences at the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment and will foster collaboration between researchers at the Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture and the School of Public Health.
Prof. Brenda Eskenazi, of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, serves as an advisor to the center. Prof. Eskenazi has pioneered the field of agricultural exposures and their impact on human health.
To the announcement in Ha'aretz
