Emory University receives a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health to establish its first center focused on researching how contaminants from Georgia Superfund sites affect human health. The funding supports efforts to study potential health impacts linked to hazardous substances identified through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program, with an emphasis on translating environmental exposure data into health-related findings. The university’s center is intended to bring together research activities aimed at understanding exposure pathways and health outcomes for affected communities and to inform how risks from toxic sites are assessed and addressed. The announcement is presented as a significant step for dedicated, institution-led research on Superfund-related health effects in Georgia. Emory is described as using the grant to build the new research center over a five-year period, with the NIH funding specifically coming from the environmental health institute. Both reports align on the grant amount, the five-year duration, the NIH support, and the center’s goal of examining health effects tied to toxic Superfund site contaminants.