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• Institute for Environmental Research
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Introduction

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• Date of Establishment : March 1, 1968
• Director : Dong Chun Shin, M.D., Ph.D.
• Number of Researchers : 22
• Main Research Areas
  The institute for Environmental Research is composed of for main research areas; risk assessment, environmental analysis, environmental health engineering, environmental epidemiology.
  • Risk Assessment
    Research it aimed at generating and developing technology for the control of environmental pollutants and hazardous chemicals which pose a threat to human health. It is divided into four parts: risk analysis, comparative risk analysis, risk perception and communication, and risk management.
  • Environmental Analysis
    Environmental analysis provides basic analytical data of environmental pollutants to support other research areas and develops pre-treatment methods for samples. It is divided into three parts: general experimental, which analyses environmental pollutants using the standard method, instrumnetal analysis, which analyses trace pollutants using HPLC, AAS, GC/MSD etc, and the study of human exposure to biomarlcers of pollytants.
  • Environmental Health Engineering
    The objective of this research is to develop reduction technology for risks caused by environmental pollutants. It has 3 tasks:identification of pollutants and exposure assessment, development of risk reduction methods and technology, and finally, development of management methods.
  • Environmental Epidemiology
    Here, research abased on the scientific method assesses the relationship between environmental pollution and disease or the subsequent adverse health outcome in the general population.