We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met. – Samuel Wilson

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should. – Samuel Wilson

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require. – Samuel Wilson