the purpose of providing nationally recognized experts to build competencies in environmental and toxicological medicine through delivery of professional education and clinical consultation to primary care practitioners and other environmental public health professionals, state and local departments

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of health, tribal governments, federal officials, emergency response personnel, and those individuals, families, and populations impacted by exposure to hazardous substance and other environmental health disease threats.

The NEMECP mission is to improve environmental and toxicological medicine capacity by utilizing the expertise of the Grantee’s membership to inform, educate and provide authoritative consultation and clinical guidance to primary care practitioners and other environmental public health professionals engaged in clinical healthcare practice and environmental health protection nationally.

The NEMECP provides environmental and toxicological medicine expertise to expand and/or enhance the capabilities of ATSDR to address environmental health threats to persons at sites where ATSDR conducts health risk evaluations.