Environmental Public Health Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - UK Health Security Agency

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UKHSA Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (RCE) lies within the Science Group.

RCE provides advice, research and services to protect the public from hazards resulting from exposure to chemicals and poisons, ionizing and non-ionising radiation, and other environmental hazards.

RCEs Environmental Hazards and Emergencies (EHE) Department provides authoritative scientific advice to government, the NHS and other bodies about the public health effects of acute and chronic chemicals exposures and the impact of other environmental hazards.

The EHE Department comprises:

Three geographically dispersed teams (North, Midlands, South) operating from nine locations providing specialist advice at local and national level on the public health impact of acute and chronic noninfectious environmental exposures.
Two Groups: the Air Quality & Public Health, Noise & Health groups. Key activities include the provision of highly specialist advice on the health impacts of noise and air pollution nationally and internationally; research in these areas, including, but not exclusively, through the National Institute of Health Research Health Protection Research Units. For the Air Quality & Public Health Group, provision of support to the Department of Health and Social care (DHSC) expert committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP).