Grantee Research Project Results
Research Centers
Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment
Michigan State University
The Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA), based at Michigan State University and jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has been established to fill critical gaps in microbial risk assessment needed to support homeland security objectives. CAMRA will provide policy-makers and first responders with the information they need to protect human life from biological threats and to set decontamination goals by focusing on two primary objectives.
The first objective is a technical mission to develop models, tools, and information that can be used to reduce or eliminate health impacts from the deliberate indoor or outdoor use of biological agents. The second objective is a knowledge management mission to build a national network for information transfer about microbial risk assessment among universities, professionals, and communities.
The scientists comprising the Center's team have extensive expertise in microbial risk assessment methods, biosecurity, and infectious disease transmission through environmental exposure. The CAMRA consortium of schools that will address critical data gaps necessary to complete credible microbial risk assessments for decontamination includes Michigan State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Drexel University, Northern Arizona University, University of Arizona, University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan.
CAMRA will undertake five major research efforts with the commitment to:
- Improve our ability to measure exposure to biological agents of concern in drinking water and indoor air;
- Develop a methodology to link models of environmental exposure and models of the disease process to help with early detection outbreaks and control efforts;
- Produce a reference set of information on the doses and subsequent responses for specific bioterrorist agents;
- Identify research strategies and risk communication priorities that can improve how society manages bioterrorism risk; and
- Develop educational programs, online learning tools, and workshops to increase knowledge about microbial risk assessment.
Assessing the Risk from Biological Threats: A Government/Academia Partnership for Homeland Security (PDF) (2 pp., 372KB)
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Main Center Abstract and Reports:
Southern California Particle Center and Supersite (SCPCS)
Centers of Excellence in Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research
CECEHDPR - University of Michigan
HSRC (1989) - Great Lakes/Mid-Atlantic HSRC
Midwest Hazardous Substance Research Center
Harvard Particle Center
Southern California Particle Center (SCPC)
- Original Abstract
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2008 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
- 2010 Progress Report
- Final Report
The Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA)
- Original Abstract
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2008 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
- 2010 Progress Report
- Final Report
Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science
Center for Children's Environmental Health Research
Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE)
Center for Children’s Environmental Health and DiseasePreventionResearch (P01) (joint EPA and NIEHS) - CHAMACOS
- Original Abstract
- 2010 Progress Report
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- Final Report
Novel Methods to Assess Effects of Bisphenol A (BPA) & Phthalates on Child Development
- Original Abstract
- 2010 Progress Report
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- Final Report
Berkeley/Stanford Children’s Environmental Health Center
Perinatal Exposures, Epigenetics, Child Obesity & Sexual Maturation
Great Lakes Air Center for Integrative Environmental Research (GLACIER)
Water Environment and Reuse Foundation (WE&RF)'s National Center for Resource Recovery and Nutrient Management
- Original Abstract
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- Final Report
Lifecourse Exposures & Diet: Epigenetics, Maturation & Metabolic Syndrome
- Original Abstract
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- Final Report
UC Berkeley/Stanford Children's Environmental Health Center
- Original Abstract
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- Final Report
SEARCH: Solutions to Energy, AiR, Climate, and Health
- Original Abstract
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- Final Report
Center for Indigenous Environmental Health Research
- Original Abstract
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- 2019 Progress Report
- 2020 Progress Report
- 2021 Progress Report
- Final Report
Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment
- Original Abstract
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- 2019 Progress Report
- 2020 Progress Report
- Final Report
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