Grantee Research Project Results
Research Centers
The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
Columbia University in the City of New York
Since 1998, the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University has been studying the long-term health of urban pollutants on children raised in minority neighborhoods in inner-city communities. Investigators enrolled and have since followed a group of children in New York City from the time their mothers were pregnant through the present, looking to determine whether exposure to these chemicals might make children more prone to obesity or have problems with learning and behavior.
The current Children’s Center grant funds three separate but related studies looking at the possible health effects of common environmental chemicals considered to be endocrine disruptors. These are chemicals that interfere with the body’s natural hormones, imitating or blocking the normal flow of hormones and thereby affecting a child’s development, brain function and immune system.
Researchers at this Children’s Center focus on two of these chemicals and their effects on children’s health: Bisphenol A (BPA) which is used in some food and linings in drink packages and canned foods,and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), present mainly in exhaust from motor vehicles and factories.
Center Publications:
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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
Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health
Southern California Particle Center (SCPC)
- Original Abstract
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- Final Report
Children’s Environmental Health Center
- Original Abstract
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2008 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
- 2010 Progress Report
- Final Report
The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
Center for Reinventing Aging Infrastructure for Nutrient Management (RAINmgt)
- Original Abstract
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- Final Report
Water Environment and Reuse Foundation (WE&RF)'s National Center for Resource Recovery and Nutrient Management
- Original Abstract
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- Final Report
Southern California Children's Environmental Health Center
- Original Abstract
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- Final Report
Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research
- Original Abstract
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- Final Report
The Columbia Center for Childrens Environmental Health
- Original Abstract
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- 2019 Progress Report
- 2020 Progress Report
- Final Report
Center Research Projects:
R834509C001 - The Role of Endocrine Disruptors in Childhood Obesity
R834509C002 - The Role of Endocrine Disruptors in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
R834509C003 - The Mechanisms of Endocrine Disruptors in Laboratory Mice
R836154C001 - The Impact of PAH Exposure on Adolescent Neurodevelopment: Disruption of Self-Regulatory Processes
R836154C002 - The Impact of PAH Exposure on Childhood Growth Trajectories and Visceral Adipose Tissue
R836154C003 - An MRI Study of the Effects of Prenatal and Early Childhood PAH Exposure on Brain Maturation and Its Mediating Influences on Adverse Adolescent Outcomes
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