Grantee Research Project Results
2016 Progress Report: 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 , Northern Arizona University
Current Institution: University of Arizona
EPA Project Officer: Callan, Richard
Project Period: July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2020 (Extended to June 30, 2021)
Project Period Covered by this Report: July 1, 2015 through June 30,2016
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:
This project will partner with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities to build tribal capacity to determine the contribution of chemical and other environmental exposures to health inequities and support efforts to address these threats. This goal will be accomplished through community-based participatory research, strengthening community resilience, increasing environmental health literacy (EHL), and informing AI/AN health and environmental policies to develop novel and sustainable strategies for reducing environmental health disparities and improving community wellness.
Progress Summary:
During this first year of funding, a significant portion of time and effort has been dedicated toward establishing an infrastructure that facilitates communication and collaboration within CIEHR (between cores and research projects) and between CIEHR and its internal and external partners.
The CIEHR Management Team, comprised of core and research project leads and co-leads has maintained monthly meetings since August 2015. Three quarterly meetings of the Internal Advisory Board (IAB) have been held, and efforts to diversify board membership have been successful. The Management Team collaborated with IAB to select five individuals to the External Advisory Board, which will hold its first meeting near the end of this reporting period.
Training and financial support of CIEHR’s first indigenous early stage investigator or career development investigator (CDI), Dr. Stephanie Carroll Rainie (Ahtna Athabaskan), began in January 2016. Dr. Rainie also is serving as the Assistant Director of CIEHR, providing direct assistance to the Administrative (AC) and Pilot Projects Core (PPC).
The Community Engagement Core (CEC) and the Exposure Science Core (ESC) of CIEHR have provided their expertise and experience, as needed, to both research projects and have made commitments to provide consultation to pilot projects (funding support begins in the next reporting period). In particular, after consultation with both research projects and identification of challenges/issues with community advisory board utilization, the CEC has begun development of a Community Advisory Board guidelines manual and training to be distributed to project personnel and future pilot studies. The ESC has provided consultation on air quality equipment purchase (Research Project 2) and dietary assessment questionnaire and protocol development (Research Projects 1 and 2).
Drs. Jani Ingram and Michael Lerma from Research Project 1 have made progress toward characterizing the extent of contamination in culturally significant food (mutton) and plant and soil of the Navajo communities of Leupp, Arizona, and Cameron, Arizona. The Navajo community of Cameron, Arizona, is located near abandoned uranium mines while the community of Leupp is not, thus, the latter is serving as the on-reservation control site. Analysis of tissue and organ samples of sheep from each community showed statistically similar levels of uranium. Sampling of five off-reservation sheep currently are being prepared for analysis. Results of analysis of plant and soil samples from the two communities were recently presented at the 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition.
Drs. Robin Harris, Mary Kay O’Rourke, and Brian Mayer from Research Project 2 made several successful trips to the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona to meet with Hopi community partners to set up the community advisory boards and discuss research design and planning. More importantly, these meetings served to assist the Research Project 2 team in developing a Hopi Tribal Council Resolution for the research project, of which an approval is necessary to commence research activities.
Future Activities:
In the next reporting period, 6/1/2016-5/31/2017, continued efforts will be made by CIEHR personnel and affiliated partners on activities in pursuit of all aims. Particular efforts will be made in pursuit of Aims 1 and 2. However, as the many aspects of the research plans for Research Project 1, Research Project 2, and the pilot projects are to be implemented in the next reporting, we will begin work in pursuit of Aim 3.
Specific activities that support pursuit of all three overall aims to be carried out by individual cores and research projects are outlined in the reports for the research projects.
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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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Supplemental Keywords:
American Indian/Alaska Native, indigenous, environmental health, health disparities, community-based participatory research, resilience, capacity-building, social determinants of health, environmental health literacy, health policy, community strategies, community research partnerships, environmental exposures, chemical contaminantsRelevant Websites:
The University of Arizona Center for Indigenous Environmental Health Research Exit
Progress and Final Reports:
Original Abstract 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
- Original Abstract
14 journal articles for this center