Environmental health and disaster sciences collaboration hub
East Tennessee State University offers partnership opportunities focused on environmental health, disaster sciences, resilience, and community health protection. We collaborate with public agencies, nonprofits, healthcare systems, and private-sector partners on projects involving environmental hazards, disaster preparedness and response, health risk communication, climate-related impacts, exposure assessment, and applied community-based research.
Partnerships can include sponsored research, pilot and demonstration projects, co-development, workforce or student-engaged projects, and technical or analytical support. Our goal is to help partners generate actionable evidence, evaluate programs, and strengthen preparedness and response capacity. We are especially interested in projects that serve Appalachian and rural communities, translate directly into practice, and create meaningful opportunities for training and innovation.
About East Tennessee State University
East Tennessee State University conducts research across health sciences, public health, clinical and translational science, addiction science, and community‑engaged social and behavioral studies, alongside strong programs in education, computing, and the arts and sciences. Notable units include the Quillen College of Medicine, the Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, the College of Nursing, the College of Public Health, and the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, as well as the Addiction Science Center and ETSU Health. The ETSU Research Corporation and the Innovation Lab support technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and regional industry collaboration. Research funding commonly comes from federal agencies such as the NIH, HRSA, CDC, and NSF, in addition to state and regional partners. Applied outcomes are focused on rural and telehealth delivery models, substance use disorder prevention and treatment, population health analytics, and community and workforce development in the Appalachian region.
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