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Summary Report: 2017 Annual Grantees Meeting of the NIH-EPA Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research
Citation:
Breville, M. AND H. Aja. Summary Report: 2017 Annual Grantees Meeting of the NIH-EPA Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research. 2017 Meeting of the NIH-EPA Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research, New Mexico,NM, December 04 - 05, 2017. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
In 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a joint solicitation to establish the NIH-EPA Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities (EHD Centers). From this solicitation, EPA, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), competitively awarded five EHD Centers for funding from 2015 to 2020. This report summarizes the second annual grantees meeting of the EHD Centers held on Dec. 4-5, 2017, in Albuquerque, NM. The meeting was hosted by the University of New Mexico (UNM) Center for Native American Environmental Health Equity Research (CNAEHER).
Description:
Approximately 100 researchers, trainees, students, and community partners attended the 2-day grantees meeting. In addition to research updates by the five EHD Centers, the meeting featured working group discussions around topics such as research translation, cross-center collaborations, and data harmonization. The meeting also included an interactive poster session, with 24 posters submitted by center researchers and students.