Action Science Initiative

Action Science Initiative

About Us

The Action Science Initiative (ASI) is a new program within Environmental Health Sciences. Our goal is to promote change through engagement in rapid, relevant science.

“Laboratory studies are already sufficient to challenge the assumed “safety” of many environmental chemicals. The next step is to conduct studies —such as interventions—that confirm these adverse effects in humans. These will obviate the excuses that regulatory agencies use to ignore or question the science demonstrating  risks of many environmental chemicals.” – William Goodson, Advisor to ASI

How it works

Intervention Science
ASI conducts short, low cost interventions that demonstrate the impact of reducing harmful environmental exposures on a health outcome of concern. For example, our first intervention is looking at reducing toxins in personal care and household products and its impact on reproductive health.

Communication
ASI trains intervention participants and others supportive of lifestyle changes that have been shown to improve a health outcome of concern. These will become Action Science Ambassadors who will talk to the media and the public about concerning health issues and the environmental triggers of those problems.

Strategy
ASI facilitates and carries out strategies to influence regulators, legislators, and approachable industry leaders in order to decrease toxic exposures and promote health.

Advisory committee

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Emily Copeland

Science Communication Network (SCN)

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Janet Nudelman

Sr. Director of Program and Policy, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners

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Jenna Hua

Founder, Million Marker

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Judith Enck

President, Beyond Plastics

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Tyrone Hayes

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William Goodson

Senior Scientist Emeritus,
California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute 

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