The chronic disease affecting your family might be preventable. When we identify environmental triggers - contaminated water, air pollution, chemical exposures - we can intervene before disease develops.
90% of disease drivers have been invisible—we're changing that.
Your DNA accounts for only 10-30% of your health outcomes. The rest comes from your environment—the air, water, food, and world around you. When we understand this exposome, in combination with the genome, we unlock unprecedented opportunities to prevent disease and transform health. And we can do it together.
About Us
We're guided by the belief that together is better.
We're guided by the belief that together is better.
The Human Exposome Foundation accelerates impact by bridging the gap between complex environmental science and everyday action through a unified, three-pillar strategy. We raise global awareness by making exposome data accessible to everyone from policymakers to the public, catalyze collaborative research across disciplines to translate discoveries into real-world applications, and empower individuals and organizations to implement data-driven changes. By fostering this ecosystem of education, integration, and innovation, we turn scientific insights into a collective movement for better health.
Understanding the Exposome
What is the Exposome?
The exposome is the culmination of all the environmental exposures you experience throughout your life—and how it affects your health. It's an enormous concept—capturing everything from the water you drink to the air you breathe, the chemicals in your home to the stress you experience.
Understanding the exposome changes everything about how we approach health.
Your daily choices matter more than you think. From the products you see to the places you live and work, environmental factors shape health outcomes. Knowledge gives you power to make informed decisions.
Solutions exist beyond genetics. If 70-90% of disease is driven by environment, that means 70-90% is potentially modifiable. We're not locked into genetic fate—we can change our trajectory.
The time to act is now.
The genomics revolution proved that when we decode disease drivers, we transform human health. If understanding 10-30% of disease factors could yield such breakthroughs, the potential of researching and integrating the 70-90% driven by environment is immense.
We can begin that work today. The tools aren't perfect yet—they're emerging, evolving, improving—but they're sufficient to start closing the gap. Each study, each measurement, each insight builds the foundation for what comes next. And as technology advances, the possibilities expand.
This is how we get to true precision medicine: combining what we know about genes with what we're learning about environment. The opportunity is real. The potential is enormous. We just need to start.
Small changes create ripples. We empower individuals, organizations, and communities to act on exposome insights. Each action amplifies the next.
Most people have never heard of the exposome. Help us make this science accessible, engaging, and actionable for everyone.