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The Office of the Science Advisor (OSA), led by the Agency Science Advisor, provides leadership and serves as an honest broker for cross-Agency science and technology (S&T) policy to facilitate the integration of the highest quality S&T into the Agency’s policies and decisions. This work is accomplished through intra- and inter-agency networks that draw on the expertise of scientists, engineers and policy advisors in the EPA Program and Regional Offices.
Programs and projects managed by the Office of the Science Advisor:
Scientific Integrity - EPA has enacted an Agency-wide Scientific Integrity Policy (EPA's Scientific Integrity Policy February 2012 (PDF) (14 pp, 207Kb, About PDF)) that builds on our long history of scientific safeguards and further ensures that sound science drives Agency decision making. The policy builds on EPA's Principles of Scientific Integrity (PDF) (1 pp, 56Kb, About PDF) and outlines foundational principles that promote a culture of scientific integrity, communication with the public, the use of peer review and Federal Advisory Committees, and the development of Agency scientists. It also establishes a new Scientific Integrity Committee to implement this policy. The Scientific Integrity Policy will ensure that science continues to drive our efforts to protect human health and the environment.
Science and Technology Policy Council - The Science Advisor chairs the Agency's Science and Technology Policy Council, which reviews selected science issues that have implications across Program and Regional offices. Current priorities include identifying ways to institutionalize the principles of sustainability into EPA’s programmatic work, driving technology innovation to solve discrete environmental and health problems, and creating community-relevant actions to help communities understand potential short- and long-term risks from exposures to multiple pollutants.
Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling - The Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling promotes consistency and consensus among environmental model developers and users.
Forum on Environmental Measurements - The Forum on Environmental Measurements works to develop policies to guide the Agency’s measurement community in: validating and disseminating methods for sample collection and analysis; ensuring that monitoring studies are scientifically rigorous, statistically sound, and yield representative measurements; and employing a quality systems approach that ensures that the data gathered and used by the Agency is of known and documented quality. The Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board also provides recommendations to EPA.
Global Earth Observation System of Systems - The Global Earth Observation System of Systems mission is a mechanism to provide decision makers with scientific information that can advance societal benefit areas including human health, ecosystems, climate change and air and water quality.
Program in Human Research Ethics - The Program in Human Research Ethics has two components, the Human Subjects Research Review Official and the Human Studies Review Board. These two components work together to support the ethical conduct and regulatory compliance of human subjects research conducted, supported, or regulated by EPA. The Program in Human Research Ethics provides direct regulatory oversight of human subjects research conducted or supported by the Agency and supports the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs in its regulatory oversight of third-party human subjects research for pesticides.
Risk Assessment Forum - The Risk Assessment Forum mission promotes consensus on risk assessment issues and develops Agency risk assessment guidance.
Senior Environmental Technology Officer (SETO) Job Announcement
Senior Environmental Technology Officer (SETO) (PDF) (2 pp, 44Kb, About PDF)