November 2005 Study Assembly Meeting 

November 28–29, 2005
Omni Shoreham
Washington, DC

Agenda (PDF 158 kb)

Meeting Announcement

Plenary Session Summary Minutes (PDF 268 kb)

Plenary Session Presentations

• National Children’s Study Overview and Focus of the Meeting (Scheidt) (PDF 890 kb) 
• Vanguard Center for Duplin County, North Carolina (Entwisle) (PDF 2.7 mb)
• Vanguard Center for Queens, New York (Landrigan) (PDF 336 kb) 
• Vanguard Center for Waukesha County, Wisconsin (Durkin) (PDF 750 kb)
• Vanguard Center for Salt Lake County, Utah (Clark) (PDF 1.1 mb)
• Vanguard Center for Brookings County, South Dakota and Lincoln/Pipestone/Yellow Medicine Counties, Minnesota (Specker) (PDF 204 kb)
• Coordinating Center (Maffeo) (PDF 43 kb)
• Overview and Highlights of Pilot Studies and Workshops (Branum) (PDF 183 kb)
• Update on Protocol Development for the National Children’s Study (Brenner) (PDF 853 kb)
• North Carolina Herald Study (Mendola) (PDF 586 kb)
• Integrating Social, Biomedical, and Environmental Factors in One Comprehensive Study (Rauh) (PDF 70 kb)
• Combining a Probability-Based Sampling Strategy with a Center-Based Approach (Savitz) (PDF 84 kb)
• Moving Forward with Implementation: NIEHS - Children’s Environmental Health Research Complimentary to the National Children’s Study (Collman) (PDF 801 kb)

Final Participant List (PDF 292 kb)

Breakout Session Reports

• Exposures: Biological and Psychosocial (PDF 70 kb)
• Exposures: Chemical and Physical (PDF 129 kb)
• Outcomes: Pregnancy Outcomes, Growth, and Physical Development (PDF 70 kb)
• Community Engagement: Recruitment and Retention (PDF 64 kb)
• IT Issues and Data Collection (PDF 55 kb)
• International Collaboration (PDF 118 kb)
• Outcomes: Neurodevelopmental Outcomes (PDF 84 kb)

Posters

The information on these posters is for historical purposes only and may have changed as the Study has progressed. 

• Poster 1: The Influence of Stress on Developmental Outcomes in the National Children’s Study (PDF 542 kb)
• Poster 2: Social Determinants of Health inthe National Children’s Study (PDF 277 kb)
• Poster 3: Collection and Use of Genetic Information in the National Children’s Study (PDF 235 kb)
• Poster 4: Measures of Maternal and Fetal Infection and Inflammation in the National Children’s Study (PDF 522 kb)
• Poster 5: Assessment of Growth and Body Composition: Findings From a National Children’s Study Workshop (PDF 1.5 mb)
• Poster 6: Ascertaining Birth Defects: Findings From a National Children’s Study Workshop (PDF 1.4 mb)
• Poster 7: Assessment of Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in the National Children’s Study (PDF 636 kb)
• Poster 8: Lessons Learned for the Study of Childhood Asthma for the National Children’s Study (PDF 865 kb)
• Poster 9: Integration of National Children’s Study Hypotheses with Proposed Exposure Measures (PDF 1.3 mb)
• Poster 10: Quality Management Plan for the National Children’s Study (PDF 708 kb)
• Poster 11: Identification of Existing Exposure Measurement Methods for Individual-Level Environmental Measures (PDF 499 kb)
• Poster 12: Identification of Existing Exposure Measures and Databases (PDF 355 kb)
• Poster 13: Development of Statistical Sampling Strategies and Optimal Design Considerations for National Children’s Study Exposure Assessments (PDF 583 kb)
• Poster 14: Exposure Assessment Methods Development Pilots for the National Children’s Study (PDF 604 kb)
• Poster 15: Information from Field Studies for Exposure Assessment in the National Children’s Study (PDF 1.7 mb)
• Poster 16: Community Engagement and Methods for Conducting Longitudinal Birth Cohort Studies: Lessons Learned from the NIEHS/EPA Children’s Centers (PDF 1.4 mb)
• Poster 17: Use of Focus Groups to Identify Recruitment and Retention Issues for the National Children’s Study (PDF 1.9 mb)
• Poster 18: Developing Biomarkers for the National Children’s Study (PDF 1.2 mb)
• Poster 19: Measuring and Coding Exposures to Medicines and Herbal Products: Implications for the National Children’s Study (PDF 439 kb)
• Poster 20: International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium (PDF 411 kb)
• Poster 21: Long Term Cohort Studies on Children’s Health and the Environment in Developing Countries (PDF 762 kb)
• Poster 22: The National Children’s Study Information Management System (IMS) (PDF 2.5 mb)
• Poster 23: Development of a Strategy for Preconception Recruitment: From Concept to Study Plan (PDF 609 kb)
• Poster 24: Pilot Study: Feasibility of Primary Care Sites Performing Subject Observation and Data Collection for the National Children’s Study (PDF 1.1 mb)
• Poster 25: Reliability and Validity of Injury Reporting for the National Children’s Study (PDF 910 kb)

Poster Abstracts (PDF 133 kb)