Grantee Research Project Results
Center for Indigenous Environmental Health Research
EPA Grant Number: R836151Center: Center for Indigenous Environmental Health Research
Center Director: Burgess, Jefferey L.
Title: Center for Indigenous Environmental Health Research
Investigators: Burgess, Jefferey L. , Harris, Robin B. , Ingram, Jani Cheri , Teufel-Shone, Nicolette I. , O’Rourke, Mary Kay
Current Investigators: Burgess, Jefferey L. , Harris, Robin B. , O’Rourke, Mary Kay , Ingram, Jani Cheri , Teufel-Shone, Nicolette I. , Hadeed, Steve , Blohm, Jonathan , Shammari, Modhi Al , Carl, Adam , Yuan, Nicole , Teufel-Shone, Nicky , Mayer, Brian , Clichee, Dominic , Whitewater, Shannon , Chico-Jarillo, Tara
Institution: University of Arizona
EPA Project Officer: Callan, Richard
Project Period: July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2020 (Extended to June 30, 2021)
Project Amount: $1,500,000
RFA: NIH/EPA Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research (2015) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Human Health
Objective:
The goal of this proposal is to develop a Center for Indigenous Environmental Health Research (CIEHR), partnering with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities to build capacity to determine the contribution of chemical and other environmental exposures to health inequities and support efforts to address these threats. AI/AN communities suffer from increased mortality attributable to cancer (stomach, gallbladder, liver and kidney), respiratory disease, diabetes, and liver disease, among other conditions. Chemically contaminated traditional foods, water, air, and household environments, as well as social determinants of health, contribute to these health disparities and stand out as modifiable factors for AI/AN communities. Effective and sustainable environmental health disparities research and mitigation require a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, engaging the strengths of AI/AN communities and providing data and context to inform policy decisions. Nascent research on resilience in AI/AN and other peoples identifies traditional community structure and social relationships, cultural identity and practices, and experience with past adversity as protective, offering innovative directions for AI/AN health research and intervention. CIEHR will address these challenges and opportunities through completion of the following specific aims: 1) Partner with indigenous communities to carry out environmental exposure research; 2) Build indigenous community capacity to address environmental health inequities; and 3) Improve environmental health research translation and inform health policy. CIEHR components will include: an Administrative Core (AC) including AI/AN Career Development Investigators (CDIs); a Community Engagement Core (CEC); an Exposure Science Core (ESC); Research Project 1 Health and Wellbeing Impact of Contamination of Traditional Food and Water on the Navajo; Research Project 2 Cumulative Environmental Effects: Expanding Research with the Hopi Tribe; and the Pilot Projects Core (PPC). Employing a CBPR approach, CIEHR will respond to Navajo requests to evaluate contamination of traditional food and water sources by uranium and arsenic and address Hopi Tribe concerns regarding household exposures to arsenic, uranium and particulate matter. Pilot research projects will focus on additional AI/AN partnerships to evaluate exposures on tribal lands and in urban and rural off- reservation settings. CIEHR will work with AI/AN partners to strengthen community resilience, increase environmental health literacy, and help translate and disseminate the research findings to inform community strategies to reduce adverse environmental exposures. CIEHR will identify mechanisms for effectively partnering with AI/AN communities to use exposure assessment to address their environmental health concerns, determine how to best strengthen tribal resilience to mitigate adverse environmental exposures, and provide exemplars of how to use research to support sustainable tribal environmental health approaches.
Journal Articles: 14 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Coksey E, Verhousgstraete M, Sneed S, Joseph C, Blohem J, Pakugana M, Joshwesonma L, Sheongva G, Hadeed S, Harris R, O'Rourke M. Drinking water and health assessment in a Northern Arizona community. HUMAN AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT 2022;. |
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Hadeed S, O'Rourke M, Canales R, Joshweseoma L, Sehongva G, Paukgana M, Gonzalez-Figureroa E, Aslhmmari M, Burgess J, Harris R. Household and behavioral determinants of indoor PM2.5 in a rural solid fuel burning Native American community. INDOOR AIR 2021;31(6):2008-2019. |
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Corlin L, Rock T, Cordova J, Woodin M, Durant JL, Gute DM, Ingram J, Brugge D. Health effects and environmental justice concerns of exposure to uranium in drinking water. Current Environmental Health Reports 2017;3(4):434-442. |
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Mayer B, Joshweseoma L, Sehongva G. Environmental risk perceptions and community health:arsenic, air pollution, and threats to traditional values of the hopi tribe. Journal of community health 2019;44(5):896-902. |
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Carroll SR, Rodriguez-Lonebear D, Martinez A. Indigenous Data Governance:Strategies from United States Native Nations. Data Science Journal 2019;18(1)3; doi:10.5334/dsj-2019-031. |
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Credo J, Torkelson J, Rock T, Ingram JC. Quantification of elemental contaminants in unregulated water across western Navajo Nation. International journal of environmental research and public health 2019;16(15):2727. |
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Rock T, Camplain R, Teufel-Shone NI, Ingram JC. Traditional sheep consumption by Navajo people in Cameron, Arizona. International journal of environmental research and public health 2019;16(21):4195. |
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Jones MC, Credo JM, Ingram JC, Baldwin JA, Trotter Jr RT, Propper CR. Arsenic concentrations in ground and surface waters across Arizona including native lands. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education 2020;169(1):44-60. |
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Yuan NP, Mayer BM, Joshweseoma L, Clichee D, Teufel-Shone NI. Development of Guidelines to Improve the Effectiveness of Community Advisory Boards in Health Research. Progress in Community Health Partnerships:Research, Education, and Action 2020;14(2):259-69. |
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Jones L, Credo J, Parnell R, Ingram JC. Dissolved uranium and arsenic in unregulated groundwater sources–Western Navajo Nation. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education 2020;169(1):27-43. |
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Rock T, Ingram JC. Traditional Ecological Knowledge Policy Considerations for Abandoned Uranium Mines on Navajo Nation. Human Biology 2020;92(1):19-26. |
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Ingram JC, Jones L, Credo J, Rock T. Uranium and arsenic unregulated water issues on Navajo lands. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A:Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films 2020;38(3):031003. |
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Hadeed SJ, O'Rourke MK, Burgess JL, Harris RB, Canales RA. Imputation methods for addressing missing data in short-term monitoring of air pollutants. Science of The Total Environment 2020:139140. |
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Nanibaa'A G, Barton KS, Porter KM, Mai T, Burke W, Carroll SR. Access and management:indigenous perspectives on genomic data sharing. Ethnicity & Disease. 2019 Dec 12;29(Supp):659-68. |
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Progress and Final Reports:
Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R836151C001 Health and Wellbeing Impact of Contamination of Traditional Food and Water on Navajo
R836151C002 Cumulative Environmental Effects: Expanding research with Hopi Tribe
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
- Final Report
- 2020 Progress Report
- 2019 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
14 journal articles for this center