TIEHH

TIEHH's history begins in 1996 when Texas Tech University and Texas Tech Health Sciences Center proposed to form a joint venture to assess toxic chemical impacts on the physical, as well as the human, environment. The following year, the Texas Tech Board of Regents approved the program and named it The Institute of Environmental and Human Health, or TIEHH. TIEHH is the first of its kind among academic institutions at Texas Tech because it fuses the resources of both Texas Tech's academic campus and its premier medical facility. Dr. Ronald J. Kendall was recruited to be the Founding Director of TIEHH and subsequently founded the Department of Environmental Toxicology. This initiative employs a medical school and health sciences center interfaced with a comprehensive university, including the Texas Tech University School of Law, and represents an opportunity to address environmental and human health issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Primary location: Lubbock United States