Center for Indoor Environments and Health

The Center for Indoor Environments and Health (CIEH) at UConn Health provides educational services, training assistance, and public health resources for all employers in the Connecticut area. We work tirelessly to deliver care with unrivaled expertise and commitment, facilitating and integrating public health, research, and clinical capabilities of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at UConn Health.

Let us help you keep your workers safe and healthy on the job. Our services provide guidance on managing indoor environmental problems and communicating the risk to the affected community, tracking and evaluating occupants’ health symptoms, assessing the building for causes of poor indoor air quality, and advising on engineering and technical resources that reduce the risk of health symptoms.

Our mission is to:

• Promote indoor environments that protect the health of building occupants and provide productive, creative spaces for learning and work
• Advance knowledge among health practitioners and environmental health professionals regarding the relationship between indoor environmental factors and adverse health effects, particularly respiratory health outcomes

The UConn Center for Indoor Environments and Health:

• Provides public health resources for communities, school districts, teachers, other building occupants and owners, and state and local health officials to evaluate and solve problems of indoor environmental quality
• Prioritizes approaches to remediation for problem buildings to optimize use of scarce resources and focus on occupant health
• Develops educational tools regarding the relationship between indoor environmental factors and adverse health effects
• Improves the understanding of the prevalence and severity of asthma and other environmentally related illnesses, especially among office workers, teachers, and school children.