Robens Centre for Public and Environmental Health

The Robens Centre for Public and Environmental Health (RCPEH) was created on August 1, 1997, from the Environmental Health Division of the former Robens Institute, which had been in existence since 1985.  The aim of the RCPEH is to increase our understanding of the complex ways in which water exerts impacts on human health.  We achieve this aim through research, training, and the provision of services.
The RCPEH has a strong research profile in the area of water quality and human health, with funding received directly, and through collaborations, from the NERC, EPSRC, DFID, Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation, SPLASH Consortium, the UK technology Strategy Board, European Union, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Leverhulme Trust, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the UK Environment Agency, and the UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The outputs from these projects have provided support to UK Government agencies and to UN organizations, as well as Government agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in many developing countries.
The Centre has extensive expertise in the scientific and management aspects of water and environmental monitoring and assessment. It plays an active role in the promotion of improved monitoring of resources in the UK and overseas. A significant part of the work of the Centre is aiding capacity building for water quality monitoring and assessment.  The type of activity ranges from the provision of bespoke in-country training to small NGOs to the design, equipping and management of national water quality analysis laboratories.  The Centre also provides services to the UK building services and water industry through its analytical laboratory, which is accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) to ISO 17025:2005.
The RCPEH is a WHO Collaborating Centre for the Protection of Water Quality and Human Health.