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Researchers and results from the EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers have been featured in a variety of television and radio news stories and video and audio documentaries, and some of the Centers have produced videos on their own as part of their outreach and translation activities. On this page you will find segments from some of those videos in the Flash Video (.flv) and Windows Media Video (.wmv) formats and links to multimedia material on the Centers, along with a transcript for each segment.
A recent program broadcast on PBS stations throughout the state of North Carolina describes the work of the Southern Center on Environmentally Driven Disparities in Birth Outcomes (SCEDDBO), the Children's Center at Duke University. Three segments from the program are posted below.
Videos:
- Air Pollution and Children -- Columbia Children's Center video (1 segment)
- Asthma - "A Breath of Air: What Pollution is Doing to Our Children" (3 segments)
- Asthma - "Children and Asthma" (5 segments)
- Chemicals - "NOW with Bill Moyers: Kids and Chemicals" (2 segments)
- Health Disparities in Birth Outcomes - Duke Children's Center (3 segments)
- Lead - "Home Lead Sampling Video" (1 segment)
- Pesticides (2 segments)
- Mercury and PCBs in Fish (1 segment)
Audio:
Air Pollution and Children - Columbia Children's Center video
This video produced for the Columbia Children's Center describes the research on health effects of multiple common urban pollutants on children in New York City. The Center is looking at the effects of exposure of children to air pollution, pesticides, tobacco smoke, PCBs, allergens and other pollutants. The video explains that the study is designed to measure the effects of environmental contaminants on asthma, adverse birth outcomes, developmental problems, and childhood cancer.
Produced by Chris Perera for the Columbia Children's Center, 2002
Air Pollution and Children View: Flash Video File View: Windows Media File |
Asthma - "A Breath of Air: What Pollution is Doing to Our Children"
This documentary presents information about the Children's Health Study (CHS), being conducted by the University of Southern California. Data from individuals enrolled in the CHS is incorporated into the work of the USC/UCLA Children's Center.
Co-produced by the USC/UCLA Children's Center and the California Air Resources Board, 2002.
Available by free download or on DVD from http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/health/school/chs-vpform.htm
A Breath of Air: What Pollution is Doing to Our Children/
Al Respirar Aire: Qué Está Haciendo la Contaminación a Nuestros Hijos. View: English: Windows Media File |
A Breath of Air: What Pollution is Doing to Our Children/
Al Respirar Aire: Qué Está Haciendo la Contaminación a Nuestros Hijos. View: English: Windows Media File |
A Breath of Air: What Pollution is Doing to Our Children/
Al Respirar Aire: Qué Está Haciendo la Contaminación a Nuestros Hijos.” View: English: Windows Media File |
Asthma - "Children and Asthma"
The documentary film"Children and Asthma" features research from the Columbia, USC and Iowa children's Centers. The film demonstrates the human impact of the large increase in childhood asthma rates over the past 20 years, how researchers are working to solve the mystery of what causes asthma and how to prevent it. The film, a Light-Saraf-Evans Production, was commissioned by KQED in San Francisco and broadcast on PBS stations throughout the state of California in 2002 and more widely in 2006.
Availability: Filmmakers Library
Additional information: Bay Window: Children and Asthma
http://www.lightsaraffilms.com/Asthma.html
Children and Asthma:
An Introduction View: Flash Video
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Children and Asthma: Schoolchildren in San Francisco
View: Flash Video
File View: Windows Media File |
Children and Asthma:
Southern California - USC/UCLA Children's Center View: Flash Video
File View: Windows Media File |
Children and Asthma:
Children in Rural Communities - Iowa Children's Center View: Flash Video
File View: Windows Media File |
Children and Asthma:
New York City - Columbia Children's Center View: Flash Video
File View: Windows Media File |
Chemicals in the Environment - "NOW with Bill Moyers": Kids and Chemicals
This one-hour program from the PBS series "NOW with Bill Moyers" features discussions on air pollution and asthma, lead and neurodevelopmental disorders. The program features investigators and community leaders from the Mount Sinai, Columbia and Cincinnati Children's Centers, including Philip Landrigan (Mount Sinai), Frederica Perera and Peggy Shepherd (Columbia) and Kim Dietrich (Cincinnati).
Broadcast May 10th, 2002, rebroadcast with update December 27th, 2002.
Additional information: http://www.pbs.org/now/thisweek/index_051002.html
Program Update: Follow Up
NOW with Bill Moyers: Kids and Chemicals (excerpt
1)
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NOW with Bill Moyers: Kids and Chemicals
(excerpt 2)
View: Flash Video File View: Windows Media File |
Health Disparities in Birth Outcomes - Duke Children's Center
These program excerpts introduce the goals of the Southern Center on Environmentally Driven Disparities in Birth Outcomes (SCEDDBO), based at Duke University. The segments were broadcast June 10, 2007 on the “Black Issues Forum”, a regular program of the North Carolina public television network affiliated with the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). The excerpts feature interviews with
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(a) Nigel Fields, EPA Environmental Health Scientist
(b) Marie Lynn Miranda, SCEDDBO Director, and
(c) Sherman A. James, SCEDDBO Co-Director.
For more information:
http://www.unctv.org/bif/thisseason/descriptions.html#episode2220
Transcript
http://www.unctv.org/bif/transcripts/2006_2007/transcript2220.html
Health Disparities in Birth Outcomes - Duke Children's Center (segment 1) View: Flash Video File View: Windows Media File |
Health Disparities in Birth Outcomes - Duke Children's Center (segment 2) View: Flash Video File View: Windows Media File |
Health Disparities in Birth Outcomes - Duke Children's Center (segment 3) View: Flash Video File View: Windows Media File |
Lead - Home Lead Sampling Video
This excerpt of a video made for the University of Cincinnati Children ’s Center provides important information about how to identify lead hazards in the home and how to take dust samples to send to a laboratory for testing. These are some of the facts included:
- Lead is highly hazardous to young children, and has been shown to cause a number of adverse effects, including diminished IQ.
- Young children commonly get lead poisoning by getting lead-contaminated dust or soil on their hands, toys and food
- Peeling lead paint can get into a child’s mouth or the chips can be crushed into a fine powder when trampled, then breathed in, creating a hazardous condition.
- Friction surfaces, such as old double-hung, wooden windows or painted wooden doors, can be sources of lead paint dust which can be breathed by occupants in the home each time the window is raised or lowered or the door is opened and closed.
- Lead paint dust is also dispersed when a wall containing lead paint is sanded or a home containing lead paint is renovated.
- Young children spend a lot of time on the floor, so the dust should be sampled to see if it has any lead content.
Home Lead Sampling Video
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The University of Cincinnati Children's Center put together an instructional video to accompany a home pesticide sampling kit that provides information about pesticides in the home, how to prevent exposure to hazardous chemicals and how to sample for them. The second video includes a segment with Brenda Eskenazi, Principal Investigator of the UC Berkeley Children's Center, commenting on the difficulty of detecting some types of pesticides in the human body, and the importance of preventing exposure of children to these chemicals.
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The University of Illinois FRIENDS Children's Center is investigating the health effects of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PDBEs) and methylmercury (MeHg) from contaminated fish caught in the Fox River and other waters in northeastern Wisconsin. In this region, many immigrants from Southeast Asia including Hmong and Lao populations and other groups eat these fish, which are contaminated with PCBs, PBDEs and to a lesser extent with MeHg. People who regularly eat these fish can accumulate these chemicals in their bodies and pregnant women can then pass them to the fetus. One of the biggest concerns is the risk of impaired neurocognitive function in children and the Center has been researching whether there is a correlation between early PCB exposure and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and to develop intervention strategies that will reduce PCB and MeHg exposure in the community.
Educational materials have been created including a simplified fishing advisory and educational video to teach about contaminants in fish, instruct viewers how to use the fishing advisory and demonstrate how to clean and prepare the fish so as to limit PCB exposure. The video is available in either Hmong or Lao with closed captioning in English, shown here is the Hmong version.
 Mercury and PCBs in Fish Video - Hmong language
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Cincinnati Children's Environmental Health Center: "The Secret Life of Lead"
National Public Radio, "Living on Earth"
The National Public Radio weekly environmental science program "Living on Earth" broadcast a series of programs about research on the effects of childhood lead exposure at the Cincinnati Children's Environmental Health Center. "Living on Earth" received a grant from the National Science Foundation to do reports on nine emerging areas of research, and the Cincinnati Children's Center was the first one selected, highlighting research on neuroscience.
Broadcast: May 9th 2003, rebroadcast August 29th 2003
Downloads:
- Secret Life of Lead Series Information
- Original Broadcast May 9, 2003
- Rebroadcast August 29, 2003
- Program update, September 12, 2003 "MRI Lead Study"
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A team of Cincinnati researchers is trying to tease out how lead poisoning affects the brain, and how these physical effects might correlate to behavioral changes. 7:00
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- Transcript
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- Program update, October 24, 2003 "An Unsung Hero"
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As part of the continuing series "The Secret Life of Lead," Cynthia Graber reports on one part of the lead researchteam whose contribution is often overlooked. 6:00
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- Program update, August 27, 2004
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Scientists are testing meconium, babies' first stools, to try to assess how much lead transfers from pregnant mothers to their fetuses. Cynthia Graber reports this latest installment of the Living on Earth series, "The Secret Life of Lead." 6:35
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- Transcript
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KPLU, Seattle, Washington (03-27-2003). University of Washington research that children who eat organic produce have lower pesticide levels than other children was featured in a report on KPLU-FM, Seattle. http://publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=474512
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