China Environment and Health

China's rapid industrialization and urbanization have given rise to a range of environmentally-related threats to human health. While the medical issues are becoming clear, the social dimensions of these problems have yet to be fully explored. The SSRC's China and the Environment Initiative seeks to assess the state of current knowledge on the relationship between the environment and health in China and to foster collaboration among researchers from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, ranging from social science to medical and environmental science. Our goal is to promote the generation and dissemination of new, social science-based research on these issues through conferences, forums, workshops, institutional collaborative grants, and an international resource exchange.