Introduction 

Environmental drivers are of main determinant of public health including communicable and noncommunicable diseases. The Environmental Health Research Center (EHRC) with a wide spectrum of environmental researches helps health policymakers to prevent the diseases and other environmental-related health issues. The EHRC with the orientation of water and food try to use the knowledge of environmental health from all corners of the world. The researchers in the center have already done many environmental health studies in collaboration with people from different countries. Therefore, EHRC financially and executively supports environmental researches from all the world.

Establishment
The center’s statute was approved by the Iranian development council of medical universities in January, 2010. It was then established in 2011.

Affiliation
The affiliation of the research center is as following:

Environmental Health Research Center, Research Institute for Health, Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.