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Michigan Center for the Environment and Children's Health

Robert McGranaghan, MPH
Project Manager
University of Michigan, School of Public Health
1420 Washington Hts., HB/HE
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: (734) 764-5171
Fax: (734) 763-7379

Mission Statement

 
The Michigan Center for the Environment and Children's Health (MCECH) is one of eight new center for children's environmental health and disease prevention research established by the NIEHS in conjunction with the EPA. The overall goal of MCECH is to investigate the environmental, pathophysiological and clinical mechanisms of childhood asthma which will translate into risk assessment and comprehensive community and household level interventions aimed at increasing knowledge and behaviors to reduce asthma-related environmental threats to individuals and neighborhoods.

  • Geographic focus: Eastside and southwest Detroit, Michigan
  • No membership

    • Children's Environmental Health Activities

    		 
    MCECH's projects involve a collaborative, empowering process that builds upon the local knowledge of community members, relies on community resources, and contributes to community capacity-building and community control of efforts aimed at understanding and changing the environment to promote and improve community and family health.

    The three projects of MCECH are engaged in coordinated interdisciplinary research aimed at:

    • increasing knowledge and behavior to reduce environmental hazards in households and neighborhoods, thereby improving asthma-related health status, through a community-based household and neighborhood level intervention;

    • examining the effects of daily and seasonal fluctuations in indoor and outdoor ambient air quality on pulmonary function and severity of asthma symptoms; and

    • determining the effects of allergen-induced local, excessive production of chemokines on redox status and innervation of the bronchial tree.

    Please note: the information presented above was provided and reviewed for accuracy by Michigan Center for the Environment and Children's Health and was not verified independently by the Children's Environmental Health Network.
    Publication date: 6/2/99
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