Project Grant RD831709011

This $145,033 cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency's Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks program (CFDA 66.609) supports efforts to protect children's environmental health in early childhood settings. The Community Development Institute will collaborate with over 200 early childhood professionals to increase their knowledge of environmental risks and conduct environmental assessments benefiting an estimated 17,000 children during the first year of...

This $407,453 cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 supports the Women For A Healthy Environment in providing capacity building and technical assistance to early learning centers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania under the Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks federal grant program (CFDA 66.609). Over the two-year period from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024, the recipient will educate approximately 200 early learning center personnel and conduct...

This $3,820,922 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will establish a Climate Change and Health Center focused on a "community-driven, health-first approach to climate action and the energy transition." The center's key innovations include developing a scenario health risk model for energy policy decision-making, conducting a pilot study on the impacts of climate change...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will fund a multi-site study to investigate the relationships between climate change-related extreme weather events and acute and chronic health outcomes in children. The $687,343 award to Drexel University will support efforts to: 1) estimate associations between extreme weather (hot temperatures, heatwaves, heavy rainfall, and intense...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) Federal Grant Program provides $224,900.00 to Emory University to investigate determinants of perinatal lead exposure, associations with preterm birth, and report research results back to the Atlanta African American maternal child cohort. The study aims to: 1) test the hypothesis that maternal lead levels are higher among those of lower socioeconomic status,...

This federal Project Grant award of $695,853 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports research on the impact of prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on children's development. The award will fund a collaborative effort between the Arkansas Children's Research Institute, Emory University, and the University of Kentucky Research Foundation to investigate how prenatal PFAS exposure...

This $546,350 Project Grant, awarded on January 13, 2025 by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (CFDA 93.113 Environmental Health), supports research to define the neurotoxic and neurodevelopmental health risks of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The primary awardee, The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, will utilize zebrafish models to investigate PFAS uptake mechanisms, cellular impacts, and effects on neurodevelopment and behavior. A...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director, under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), will provide $164,561 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to study the relationship between prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, child neurodevelopmental disorders, and the potential mediating role of cytokines and DNA methylation. The research aims to: (1) examine associations between prenatal endocrine disrupting...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CFDA 93.283 - CDC Investigations and Technical Assistance) provides $2,250,000 to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) to conduct a high-quality biomonitoring program to assess human exposure to environmental chemicals. Through this project, MDPH will leverage the capabilities of the Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory and the Bureau of Climate and Environmental Health to perform...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (CFDA 93.113 Environmental Health) will support a research study at New York University (NYU) to examine the relationship between prenatal and postnatal exposure to phthalates and bisphenols, and their impact on infant reproductive development during the "minipuberty" period in the first 6 months of life. The $719,892 award will fund the recruitment of 480 infants and their mothers, collection of...