Institute of Health and Environmental Research Incorporated

The objects of the Association are: To be a not-for-profit Association.1. The association is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. To work towards the betterment of environmental health and well-being by protecting natural ecosystems and fostering sustainable and environmentally sensitive agricultural systems. To work towards the betterment of public health by prevention and control of disease and illness, thereby preventing the distress due to these now and in the future; To investigate links between human and environmental health. In order to do this, the Association aims: i) To perform and to disseminate scientific research in human and environmental health in the public interest; ii) To inform and educate students and the public about issues related to human and environmental health in the public interest; iii) To provide funds to individuals, bodies or institutions having similar objects to the Association that further the aims of the Association; iv) To advocate the objects and policies of the Association, and for changes to practice and to international and national law to reflect research results; v) To promote links between the Association and individuals and organisations with similar aims interstate and overseas; vi) To establish and maintain a public fund to be called The Institute of Health and Environmental Research Fund for the specific purpose of supporting the objects of the Association.