HEI releases 5-Year strategic research plan

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HEI has just published its new Strategic Research Plan 2025–2030. This document will guide the organization’s scientific research and related activities through the next five years.

Experts from a variety of sectors contributed to the plan. Over the course of more than a year, HEI leadership and staff engaged with government and industry sponsors, other government officials and industry representatives, nongovernmental organizations, and researchers to identify key themes and priority research topics.

The Strategic Research Plan sets a course for each of HEI’s three separately funded programs – Environment and Health, Energy, and Global Initiatives – and describes HEI’s unique partnership with government and industry that ensures that HEI produces impartial, independent scientific evidence to inform important technology and policy decisions. The funded research presented in this plan is selected, overseen, and peer-reviewed independently of sponsors. Here are the new research priorities in our program areas:

Environment & Health

• Evolving Transportation Landscape
• Pollutant Mixtures
• Air Toxics
• Advancing Environmental Health of Communities
• Air Quality and Changing Climate

Energy

• Unconventional Oil and Gas Development Exposure Research
• Health Effects of Energy Systems and Technologies

Global Initiatives

• State of Global Air Initiative
• Supporting Research Synthesis
• Bolstering Technical Capacity

This plan represents the institute’s strategic investment in the most critical environmental health issues, with the goal of informing health-protective decisions and policies. HEI is grateful to all who contributed input, guidance, and support.

Read the Strategic Plan