Data Infrastructure and Gateway for Environmental Health Research

Datasets that provide information about environmental quality are increasingly large and complex, and include both spatial and temporal information. These data require specialized skills to clean, organize, integrate with other environmental quality data and health outcome data, and analyze. The objectives of this study are to: 1) evaluate interest of the environmental health research and practice communities in a data infrastructure that integrates diverse environmental quality data, and that is accessible and analyzable through a user-friendly interactive Web-based gateway; and 2) test a prototype data infrastructure and gateway with potential end-users. Herein we present initial ideas about the data content and design of the data infrastructure and the envisioned functionality of the gateway. Our goal is to stimulate conversation with potential end-users.