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Healthwatch: DRI’s revolutionary health
and risk research is garnering attention

Many times when we describe to the public what DRI is all about, it is simplest to say that our research centers around air, water and land quality studies. This is a very basic and very generalized description, since there are so many ways we accomplish this. One aspect of our work that crosses over all three research areas is health and risk assessment.

DRI’s mission statement describes how we excel in environmental research and the application of technologies to improve people’s lives throughout Nevada and the world, and our vision statement includes improving human health and welfare. Many federal and state agencies, businesses and the public worldwide seek DRI’s expertise in their quests to improve human health and the environment. Our approaches to risk- and health-related research and our results are unparalleled.

Not only are our scientists and laboratories dependable and first-rate, but you’ll notice in the following examples, our scientists tend to think outside the box to create portable laboratories or employ one-of-a-kind techniques to obtain the data they seek. These are just a few ways DRI’s expertise has been sought in order to properly and adequately assess human health and welfare in its own backyard in Nevada and around the world. I think you will agree it is now accurate and relevant to say that DRI’s research has expanded to air, water, land and life quality studies.