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Center for Children's Environmental Health Risks Research

Elaine M. Faustman, PhD
Center Director and Principle Investigator University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Alternate contact: Tiffany Potter-Chiles, Program Coordinator
Dept. of Environmental Health
University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine
4225 Roosevelt Way NE, #100
Seattle, WA 98105-6099
Phone: (206) 616-9133
Fax: (206) 616-4875
 

Mission Statement

 
The Center for Children's Environmental Health Risks is one of eight new centers for children's environmental health and disease prevention research established by the NIEHS in conjunction with the EPA. The goal of the CHC is to understand the biochemical, molecular, and exposure mechanisms that define children's susceptibility to pesticides and the implications for assessing pesticide risks to normal development and learning.
  • Geographic focus: agricultural areas in central Washington state
  • No membership

    • Children's Environmental Health Activities

    		 
    The CHC is comprised to two laboratory-based research projects, two field-based projects, and four facility cores. The specific objectives of the laboratory-based research projects are to:
    • identify cellular, biochemical and molecular mechanisms for the adverse developmental neurotoxicity of organophosphate pesticides and
    • to identify the impact of genetic polymorphisms for paraoxonase on the developmental neurotoxicity of organophosphate pesticides.
    The specific objectives of the two field-based projects - a pesticide exposure pathways research project and the related community based intervention study - are to:
    • identify critical pathways of pesticide exposure for children and

    • to develop a culturally appropriate intervention to break the take-home pathway that will ultimately result in reducing children's exposure to pesticides.
     
    Please note: the information presented above was provided and reviewed for accuracy by Center for Children's Environmental Health Risks Research and was not verified independently by the Children's Environmental Health Network.
    Publication date: 6/2/99
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