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    Duke Children's Center Video
    describing research at the Duke Children's Center, studying environmentally driven disparities in birth outcomes.

  • View a video segment from the documentary "Children and Asthma" which features investigators
    Columbia Center Video
    from the Mount Sinai and USC/UCLA Children's Centers.

For audio and video clips featuring the Children's Centers, visit the Multimedia section.
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Research Leading to Interventions

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.

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

Child with Asthma Inhaler Indoor Air Particles Increase Asthma Symptoms in Children
Researchers at Johns Hopkins found a direct correlation between increasing concentrations of particulate matter (PM) in indoor air and increased asthma symptoms in preschool children. Funded in part by a grant from EPA’s Science to Achieve Results program and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the study, published in the February issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, evaluated 150 inner city children with asthma in the Baltimore metropolitan area.
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Two Funding Opportunities Now Open under EPA and NIEHS Joint Children's Environmental Health Centers Program
NIEHS and EPA have jointly issued two funding opportunities to support the next phase of the Children’s Environmental Health Research Centers (CEHCs) program.
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A Decade of Children’s Health Research 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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