Science & Technology

Center for Early Lifestage Vulnerabilities to Environmental Stressors - Cumulative Health Impacts for Children in Underserved Rural Agricultural Communities in the United States Request for Applications (RFA)

New RFA for Children's Centers

Cumulative Health Impacts at the Intersection of Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Vulnerable Populations/Lifestages: Community-Based Research for Solutions Request for Applications (RFA)

This is a request for applications to address climate change and EJ

NIEHS/EPA CEHCs: Mechanisms of Asthma-Dietary Interventions against Environmental Triggers - Johns Hopkins University

this center, researchers focus on children living in the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland to study how certain foods cause asthmatic responses and whether certain foods make a person’s asthma better or worse

NIEHS/EPA CEHCs: Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE) - UC Berkeley

Scientists at this center are examining how early exposure to toxic chemicals might contribute to leukemia in children

NIEHS/EPA CEHCs: Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research - University of Washington

This center aims to understand why some children are more susceptible than others to the harmful effects of pesticides and are trying to identify how this susceptibility affects growth, development and learning.

NIEHS/EPA CEHCs: Formative Center for the Evaluation of Environmental Impacts on Fetal Development - Brown University

The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University studies long-term health of urban pollutants on children raised in minority neighborhoods in inner-city communities.

NIEHS/EPA CEHCs: Berkeley/Stanford Children's Environment Health Center - UC Berkeley

The goal of this Center is to better understand the effects of exposure in the womb to air pollutants and airborne bacteria on newborn health, immune system health during childhood, and to understand the relationship of these early-life exposures to asthma

NIEHS/EPA CEHCs: Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center: Formative Center - University of California, San Francisco

At this center, researchers are exploring how to measure the chemicals to which developing babies are exposed and how to study their health effects on early development

NIEHS/EPA CEHCs: Novel Methods to Assess Effects of Bisphenol A & Phthalates on Child Development - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

At this center, researchers study the effects of two endocrine disruptors that are commonly used in pesticides, plastics and many other products and are also found in vehicle exhaust: bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates.

NIEHS/EPA CEHCs: Perinatal Exposures, Epigenetics, Child Obesity and Sexual Maturation - University of Michigan

Scientists are seeking to understand how early exposure to chemicals such as lead, bisphenol A (BPA), and phthalates affects growth and sexual development during childhood and adolescence and the risk for diseases in adulthood.

NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health Centers: Lifecourse Exposures & Diet: Epigenetics, Maturation & Metabolic Syndrome

The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University studies long-term health of urban pollutants on children raised in minority neighborhoods in inner-city communities.

NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health Centers Children’s Health and Air Pollution Study – San Joaquin Valley (CHAPS-SJV)

This center is investigating how air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley contributes to birth defects, preterm birth, allergies, obesity, diabetes and other childhood illnesses.

NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health Centers: The UCSF Pregnancy Exposures to Environmental Chemicals (PEEC) Children's Center

This center is working to determine the impacts of some of these hazardous chemicals to babies during pregnancy.

NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health Centers: Novel Methods to Assess Effects of Chemicals on Child Development

The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University studies long-term health of urban pollutants on children raised in minority neighborhoods in inner-city communities.

NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health Centers Center for Children’s Health, the Environment, the Microbiome and Metabolomics (C-CHEM2)

This center is characterizing environmental exposures to African American women during pregnancy and their infants.

NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health Centers Center for the Study of Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment (CCAUE)

The goal of this center is to understand how exposure to air pollution causes high rates of asthma in the inner city.

NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health Centers Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico (CRECE)

This center is studying the impact of multiple environmental chemicals on child health and development.

NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health Centers Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE)

The goal of this center is to identify the causes of ALL in an ethnically diverse population and understand how environmental factors increase risk.

NIEHS/EPA Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers

Information about NIEHS/EPA's Children Environmental Health Centers (CEHCs)

NIH/EPA Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research Kick-off Meeting

NIH/EPA Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research - Kick-off Meeting

• Date: December 10, 2015