We have to reduce the exposure of people to diesel exhaust
Why was Health Effects Institute (HEI) established?
hei was founded in 1980 to conduct research on the health effects of air pollution and help policymakers to evolve strategies to tackle this problem. The us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) and the worldwide motor vehicle industry fund us on the grounds that they can use the research to take decisions. Independent experts, who are top scientists, constitute the board of the organisation.
In the 1980s, the truck industry, for instance, was being regulated for the first time and they viewed the regulation process with suspicion. At the same time both the epa and the industry were frustrated because they had spent a lot of time debating over the health effects, but could not do much about the problems. So the heads of the automobile companies and the head of the epa took thisinitiative to establish hei .
What are the institutional mechanisms that help you to be unbiased in your research, despite getting 50 per cent funding from the industry?
To maintain our individuality we don't take or recommend specific policy positions or decisions. But we do try to communicate with all sides
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