ShARP Center
The ShARP Center advances interdisciplinary research and community action to address PFAS contamination and its health impacts. By combining expertise in public health, engineering, and biomedical science, we study PFAS effects on liver health, develop technologies to detect and remove them from water, and partner with communities to promote prevention and resilience. Our mission is to protect public health and the environment through innovation, collaboration, and equitable solutions.
About The Center
Center Director
“Through our center, we aim to share the latest discoveries, training opportunities, and community engagement efforts that drive our mission to protect public health and the environment.
ShARP was established to confront one of today’s most urgent environmental health challenges: per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination. “
Lida Chatzi, MD, PhD
Director, ShARP Center
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
ShARP News
- NIH to award $8 million for new USC Superfund Center to research and address ‘forever chemicals’
- The ReWater Center will Revolutionize Resource Resilience
- USC Faculty Member Max Aung, PhD, Shares Research Expertise at California Attorney General’s Press Conference
- Environmental Factor: New Superfund Research Program Center to examine PFAS, liver disease
- Press release: USC study shows how PFAS disrupt healthy function in human liver cells
- Press release: USC Superfund Researchers Identify “Forever Chemical” PFHpA as Risk Factor for Severe Liver Disease in Adolescents
- Press release: USC study links ultra-processed food intake to prediabetes in young adults
- Press release: Teens with higher blood levels of PFAS regain more weight after bariatric surgery, study finds
- Press release: PFAS exposure may limit improvements in blood sugar after bariatric surgery
The Center In Action
