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Hurricane Katrina Relief Information |
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Environmental Health Risks
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Hurricane Katrina Information Web site provides information on assessing and evaluating hundreds of potentially hazardous environmental pollutants that may pose a risk to human health. The website draws from information that NIEHS has acquired from a variety of sources including its research programs, as well as through its Superfund Basic Research Program, Worker Education and Training Program, and Environmental Health Science Centers. The website also includes a link to a new Global Information System (GIS) that NIEHS is developing with several academic partners. The GIS will contain layers of data, including the locations of refineries, oil pipelines, industrial facilities, Superfund sites, Toxic Release Inventory Data, agricultural operations, as well as maps and satellite images of schools, neighborhoods, and medical facilities, that will help assess the short and long effects of Katrina on the Gulf region. The National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health Web site provides information relative to environmental health risks in the aftermath of Katrina. This Web site offers links to federal government web resources, portals to health information, general chemical information, along with environmental health maps of the areas affected by Katrina. Links to Web sites specializing in environmental cleanup and recovery, emergency health management, and managing emergency health services are also available. |
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