Environmental health
sciences (EHS) span many diverse disciplines.
Within the EHS community, the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences Superfund Research Program (SRP) funds multidisciplinary
research aimed to address pressing and complex issues on how people
are exposed to hazardous substances and their related health consequences
with the goal of identifying strategies to reduce exposures and protect
human health. While disentangling the interrelationships that contribute
to environmental exposures and their effects on human health over
the course of life remains difficult, advances in data science and
data sharing offer a path forward to explore data across disciplines
to reveal new insights. Multidisciplinary SRP-funded teams are well-positioned
to examine how to best integrate EHS data across diverse research
domains to address multifaceted environmental health problems. As
such, SRP supported collaborative research projects designed to foster
and enhance the interoperability and reuse of diverse and complex
data streams. This perspective synthesizes those experiences as a
landscape view of the challenges identified while working to increase
the FAIR-ness (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable)
of EHS data and opportunities to address them.
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