About CHHR
NCCOS’s Center for Human Health Risk (CHHR) conducts research to understand
and forecast relationships between coastal ocean ecosystems and human health and
make information and tools available to managers and public health officials.
To accomplish this CHHR provides a safe and secure state-of-science environment
and the support to facilitate collaboration among the partners, emphasizing the
strengths and expertise of the partners at
Hollings Marine Laboratory.
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Oceans and Human Health
As a part of NOAA's
Oceans and Human Health Initiative,
research conducted through the 
Center is focused in these core areas: genomics; environmental
chemistry and toxicology; and pathogen source tracking, monitoring, and assessment.
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