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If you have questions about the community, use cases, or events, please contact Maria Shatz, Ph.D., M.Sc. ([email protected]).

Welcome to the Environmental Health Language Collaborative (EHLC).

We are a community for anyone who generates, analyzes, or manages environmental health sciences (EHS) data and wants to ensure the data are formatted using acommon EHS language to promote data discovery, interoperability, and reuse in spirit of theNIH Data Management and Sharing Policy.

We welcome broad representation of expertise, needs, and scientific interests to make this a successful and sustainable community.

Call for Suggestions!

Please email Maria Shatz, Ph.D., M.Sc. ([email protected]) if you have thoughts on any or all of the following:

  • Where can EHLC focus efforts to advance effective data sharing for environmental health research?
  • Do you have a great data sharing story? Calling for volunteers to present at theODSS Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar Series
  • What topics or speakers should we consider for future EHLC webinars?
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Learn About the EHLC Community

EHLC is a community-driven initiative seeking to harmonize data, connect knowledge, and improve public health.

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Speaking the Same Language

An essential component to leveraging environmental health sciences (EHS) data is to describe data with interoperable terminologies to promote data discovery, analysis, and reuse.

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Environmental Health Use Cases

Join a use case working group and help develop solutions to enhance the findability, sharing, and interoperability of EHS data.

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Review EHS Shared Language Resources

Checkout the compilation of resources on how to incorporate shared language into your research.