The overall goal of the Exposure Assessment Research Core (EARC) is the conduct of research to improve characterization and quantification of exposure in the context of environmental and occupational health. Exposure assessment is crucial to environmental epidemiology, toxicology, risk assessment and risk management, health and hazard surveillance and prevention and represents a central theme of the Center.

The key objectives of the EARC are:

• To improve and expand interaction between epidemiologists concerned with health outcomes and scientists whose primary focus is exposure assessment,
• To provide more current information about ongoing exposure assessment research in Southern California,
• To develop new, collaborative research between investigators in epidemiology, dosimetry, toxicology and exposure assessment,
• To better define the nature and scope of regional environmental problems,
• To identify new funding sources for research on problems relevant to the region.