University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences

The University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK CARES) is an Environmental Health Sciences Core Center to enhance research capacity focused on major environmental health impacts to air and water quality that have been implicated in environmentally induced disease. This center will provide advanced infrastructure and leading expertise, dedicated career development and mentorship, and community-engaged interactions to facilitate innovative discovery and new understandings of environmental factors in disease initiation, progression, and outcomes and their community impacts.