The SIG Beat

News From and About the Scientific Interest Groups

NEW SIG: Environmental Justice and Health Interest Group

The new Environmental Justice and Health Interest Group (EJHIG) will serve as a platform to learn about various environmental justice (EJ) issues and efforts in research and community outreach. This Scientific Interest Group (SIG) aims to promote and support cross-NIH collaboration in environmental health equity research, advance methods in EJ research, and incorporate EJ frameworks into transdisciplinary research.

The EJHIG also looks to bring together EJ investigators from both intramural and extramural communities and will include trainees and early career investigators from multiple NIH ICs, including NCI, NIEHS, NIAID, NIDDK, NINDS, and OD. EJHIG events are open to all NIH community members.

The EJHIG is co-organized by Jennifer Ish (NIEHS), Jongeun Rhee (NCI), and Maya Spaur (NCI), with Chandra Jackson (NIEHS) serving as advisor. For more information, go to https://oir.nih.gov/sigs/environmental-justice-health-interest-group or contact Jennifer Ish, at jennifer.ish@nih.gov.

A sampling of SIGs

• 3D Printing and Modeling

• Bioinformatics

• Dietary Supplement

• DNA Repair

• Genetic Counseling

• Pancreatic Cancer

• Pediatric Clinical Research

• Religion, Spirituality, and Health

• Science of Science Communication

• Virtual and Augmented Reality