Grantee Research Project Results
2017 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
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, 2016 through June 30,2017
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 effort 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 second year of funding, a significant portion of time and effort has been dedicated toward supporting and fostering the infrastructure that was established in the previous reporting period. This Center infrastructure 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. Three quarterly meetings of the internal advisory board (IAB) have been held, and efforts to diversify board membership have been successful. An External Advisory Board (EAB) meeting, comprised of five individuals, selected by both the Management Team and Internal Advisory Board members was held in January 2017 and plans are underway for an on-site meeting to be held in September 2017. A combination of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) and non-AI/AN individuals were selected to serve on CIEHR EAB to represent both academic and non-academic expertise in environmental health and indigenous issues.
Training and financial support of CIEHR’s first indigenous early stage investigator or career development investigator, Dr. Stephanie Carroll Rainie continued in this reporting period. Dr. Rainie also serves as the Assistant Director of CIE, providing direct assistance to the Administrative Core and direct activities and partnership building in the Pilot Projects Core.
In addition, training and financial support of CIEHR’s first Diversity Supplement Grant Trainee, Jenny Richards (Navajo) began in January 2017.
The CIEHR Community Engagement Core (CEC) have worked with CIEHR research projects to ensure that research activities conducted in collaboration with the Navajo and Hopi communities effectively engage community-based stakeholders through the use of a community resilience approach and translate the research findings into culturally-relevant materials. In particular, the CEC has worked with NAU researchers on the Traditional Foods Contamination on Navajo Nation Study (RP1) in developing a mutton intake frequency questionnaire that also incorporates the cultural significance of mutton. The CECs work with the UA researchers and community partners on the Hopi Environmental Health Study (RP2) has centered around providing guidance, education, and training on effective Community Advisory Boards. The CEC have made commitments to providing consultation and support to all Round 1 and Round 2 Pilot Projects that will be underway in the next reporting period.
The CIEHR Exposure Science Core (ESC) have worked to provide professional development and training to CIEHR personnel and community research partners in support of the CIEHR research projects and projects. In particular, the ESC has worked with the NAU researchers on RP1 on the continued development of food frequency questionnaires and collection of dietary recall. Much of the training the ESC team provided in this reporting period was to support the RP2 research team which consisted of university and community research personnel. The ESC provided extensive training related to the operation of air quality equipment, collection of body measurements and field techniques in quality assurance and quality control measured. The ESC has also provided extensive consultation and aid to the Round 1 Pilot Project proposal and work plan.
Drs. Jani Ingram and Michael Lerma from RP1 have made progress toward characterizing the extent of contamination in culturally significant food (mutton) and water of the Navajo communities of Leupp and Cameron, and of the off-reservation control site, Eagar, AZ. Analysis of tissue and organ samples of sheep from each community are currently undergoing analysis. The RP1 team has worked continuously with the CEC to develop a mutton frequency questionnaire that will be administered in the Navajo communities of interest as an indicator of risk. In this reporting period, the RP1 team has secured both community and tribal resolutions of support for this survey. IRB approvals for this survey were secured from Northern Arizona University and the Navajo Nation.
Drs. Robin Harris and Mary Kay O’Rourke, along with their UA team of graduate student researchers, Steve Hadeed, Connor Kelly, and Modhi Alshammari have made several successful trips to the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona to meet with Hopi community partners to set up the air quality equipment, off-campus research site and to continue facilitating discussion and collaboration on research design, methods and implementation. The RP2 successfully installed and operationalized a functional regional air monitoring station at Hopi, a request of the tribal research partners. In addition, with the assistance of the ESC, the RP2 provided extensive training to community research partners, including Hopi environmental technicians on the maintenance and calibration of the equipment. The RP2 also recruited, hired, and trained community researchers as recruiters and interviewers to execute household sampling. In this reporting period, the RP2 teams has secured tribal resolutions of support and memorandums of agreement. IRB approval for household sampling, including recruitment, outreach and questionnaire materials, was secured from the University of Arizona.
Future Activities:
In the next reporting period, 6/1/2017-5/31/2018, continued efforts will be made by CIEHR personnel and its affiliated partners on activities in pursuit of all Center aims.
Center overall aims:
- Aim 1: Partner with indigenous communities to carry out environmental exposure research.
- Aim 2. Build indigenous community capacity to address environmental health inequities.
- Aim 3. Improve environmental health research translation and inform health policy.
Particular efforts will be made in pursuit of Aims 1 and 2. Additionally, as many aspects of the research plans for RP1, RP2 and the pilot projects are continuing to be implemented in the next reporting period, we will also begin work in pursuit of Aim 3.
Specific activities to be carried out in pursuit of all three overall aims to be carried out by individual cores and research projects are outlined in each core/projects reports.
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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:
Center for Indigenous Environmental Health Reserch (CIEHR)
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
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Project Research Results
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- 2020 Progress Report
- 2019 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- Original Abstract
14 journal articles for this center