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For many reasons, children are likely to be more vulnerable than adults to the effects of environmental contaminants. To better understand the effects of these exposures on children's health, the Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research ("Children's Centers") were established to explore ways to reduce children's health risks from environmental factors. The program is jointly funded by EPA through the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grants program, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) with additional expertise and low-cost laboratory services provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The long-range goals of the program include understanding how environmental factors affect children's health, and promoting translation of basic research findings into intervention and prevention methods to prevent adverse health outcomes. The program is designed to foster research collaborations among basic, clinical, and behavioral scientists with participation from local communities.
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Research
Researchers at the Children's Centers continue to publish significant research results. For example, researchers found that exposure to certain pesticides can be linked to small head circumference and low birthweight, and that Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is effective in reducing children's pesticide exposure.News
EPA Knows More about Children's Environmental Health Than Ever
EPA has published a research summary report called: A Decade of Children’s Health Research. This report summarizes important research findings found from $127 million invested in research grants on children’s environmental health in response to an executive order issued in 1997.
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EPA and NIEHS Award $7.5M Grant to UC Davis for Renewed Autism Research
To continue federal progress on research on autism, EPA and the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) announced renewed
funding for The University of California/Davis’s Center for Children’s
Environmental Health (CCEH). This Center will investigate
how genes and exposure to environmental chemicals during fetal development
may play a role in the development of autism. [Read More]
Duke Children's Center to Study Environmentally Driven Disparities in Birth Outcomes
Duke University has been awarded a Children’s Center grant (and the first
fully funded by EPA) for the Southern Center on Environmentally Driven Disparities
in Birth Outcomes (SCEDDBO). The newest Center will study why the number of babies
born prematurely or with low birth weight are higher in the South than in other
parts of the U.S. [Read More]UC Davis Children's Center Research Shows Some PCBs Cause Brain Development Abnormalities in Rodents
Scientists at the UC Davis Children's Center, working with researchers at the University of California at San Francisco, have shown that exposure to noncoplanar PCBs can cause deficits in the developing brain which lowers the capacity to learn in response to sound. The levels used were similar to those seen in children exposed to high levels of PCBs in the environment. [Read More]
Children's Centers featured in Environmental Health Perspectives
The NIEHS/EPA Children's Environmental Health Research Centers have been featured in an issue of Environmental Health Perspectives.The issue contains a mini-monograph of seven collaborative "Lessons Learned" papers from the Children's Centers, prepared for the National Children's Study, and the "Environews" section contains profiles of four of the Centers. [Read More]
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