Grantee Research Project Results
Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem
EPA Grant Number: R827039C001Subproject: this is subproject number 001 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R827039
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico
Center Director: Alshawabkeh, Akram
Title: Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem
Investigators: Brenner, Barbara , Wolff, Mary S.
Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
EPA Project Officer: Callan, Richard
Project Period: August 1, 1998 through July 31, 2003 (Extended to July 31, 2004)
Project Amount: Refer to main center abstract for funding details.
RFA: Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research (1998) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Children's Health , Human Health
Objective:
The centerpiece of the Center is the Community-Based Prevention Research Project, "Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem". The goal of this project is to reduce exposures of inner-city children and their families to pesticides in city housing through the technique of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and to reduce exposure to PCBs through dietary modification.
Publications and Presentations:
Publications have been submitted on this subproject: View all 3 publications for this subproject | View all 41 publications for this centerJournal Articles:
Journal Articles have been submitted on this subproject: View all 1 journal articles for this subproject | View all 33 journal articles for this centerSupplemental Keywords:
children, exposure, pesticides, PCBs,, RFA, Health, Scientific Discipline, Toxics, Genetics, Environmental Chemistry, Health Risk Assessment, pesticides, Risk Assessments, Susceptibility/Sensitive Population/Genetic Susceptibility, Children's Health, genetic susceptability, Biology, pesticide exposure, sensitive populations, infants, biological response, PCBs, individual variation, exposure, susceptability to pesticides, children, assessment of exposure, children's vulnerablity, genetic risk factors, susceptibility, human exposure, pesticide residues, genotyping, molecular research, human susceptibility, exposure assessment, genetic susceptibilityProgress and Final Reports:
Main Center Abstract and Reports:
R827039 Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R827039C001 Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem
R827039C002 Exposure to Indoor Pesticides and PCBs and their Effects on Growth and Neurodevelopment in Urban Children
R827039C003 Genetics of Chlorpyrifos Risk in Minority Populations
R827039C004 Prenatal PCB Exposure and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Adolescence and Adulthood
R827039C005 Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Environmental Toxicants: PCBs and Pesticides
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.
Project Research Results
1 journal articles for this subproject
Main Center: R827039
41 publications for this center
33 journal articles for this center