The Negev Environmental Health Research Institute (NEHRI) is an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to environmental health, established at Soroka University Medical Center by physicians together with Ben-Gurion University scientists.
Since 2010 the NEHRI team has performed close to 50 studies on impacts of environment on health. Their list appears below and is summarized under "Recent Projects".
We believe that the Negev desert region is extremely well positioned for a cutting edge research of the changing climate effects on human health.
The growing population of the Negev (750,000 residents) is exposed to diverse sources of outdoor and indoor environmental factors related to human activities (industrial waste, air emission, water discharges, human waste, consumer products, and the transport of chemicals) as well as natural phenomena.