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Capability: Climate Change

Project Timeline: 9/29/2001-2/29/2013

This innovative, long-term, government-to-government, applied training program between the California Department of Public Health and Shanghai Centers for Disease Control collaborative is organized to train two to four mid-career agency health scientists each year in advanced epidemiological methodology/practice and environmental health laboratory research. The training program is designed to foster the development of environmental health research strategies, building on existing strengths of the Chinese environmental health community, that address the most profound environmental health issues -- strategies that are best suited to regional and national needs. The China-California Environmental Training Program focuses on several key activities in order to foster the development of environmental health research strategies; to provide real-world exposures to community health issues; to participate in interactive discussions on environmental health issues; and to develop professional relationships in order to collaborate on projects of mutual interest. The training module for this group was similar to our previous trainees such as taking classes from University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health; attending conferences, seminars, and workshops etc; and visiting other public health related research institutes and government agencies within the United States.

Projects

  1. Global Climate Change and Public Health: Planning a Regional China GEOHEALTH Hub
  2. Insect Diversity and Niche Specialization in Giant Sequoias
  3. Systematics of Window Flies
  4. Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids
  5. Reproductive Effects of Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water
  6. Perchlorate and Thyroid Hormones in Pregnancy and Infants in Southern California
  7. HIA Program Development
  8. Placer County Biomass Energy Facility
  9. San Francisco Bay Seafood Consumption Study
  10. Develop Mid-trimester Screening Algorithms for Early Onset Preeclampsia
  11. Phytoestrogen and Time to Pregnancy
  12. Tobacco Exposure in Pregnant Women in Minority Populations
  13. Reduce Exposure to Unhealthy Air in the Imperial Valley, California near the U.S.-Mexico Border
  14. Neuro-Developmental Disabilities Screening and Assessment in Uganda
  15. Genome-Wide Association Study of Childhood Leukemia by Hispanic Status
  16. Characterization of CFTR Mutations Among Non-White CF Patients
  17. Building Capacity for Health Impact Assessment at State and Territorial Health Agencies
  18. Perinatal Exposure to Airborne Pollutants and Associations with Autism Phenotype
  19. Designing a Next Generation Science Standards Ready Air Quality Science High School Curriculum (Phase I and II)
  20. Social and Climate Change Migration Policy: Government of Tuvalu (South Pacific)
  21. Tobacco and cannabis exposure during pregnancy in six race/ethnic subgroups in California
  22. Studying Mothers and their Children at Risk from In Utero Exposure to Grandmaternal Smoking
  23. Public Health Effects of Increased Prescribe Burns for Wildlife Management
  24. East Bay Diesel Exposures Project (EBDEP)
  25. Expanding California Biomonitoring Database through Statewide Surveillance and Targeted Population Studies
  26. California Region Exposure Study 3 (CARE-3)
  27. California Region Exposure Study 2 (CARE-2)
  28. California Region Exposure Study I (CARE-LA)
  29. California's Strategic Plan Implementation Grants for Asthma
  30. Environmental Health Symposium for Promotores and Community Health Workers
  31. Palos Verdes Shelf Fish Contamination Project
  32. San Francisco Bay Fish Project
  33. Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
  34. Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
  35. California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
  36. Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
  37. PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
  38. Early Childhood Mortality Study
  39. Preterm Markers Study-2006/07
  40. Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth: the Inflammatory Response
  41. Preterm Markers Study-2009/10
  42. Development of a Research-Ready Pregnancy and Newborn Biobank in California
  43. National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
  44. Newborn Blood Spots, Collaborative Project with UCD Public Health Sciences Department
  45. Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia
  46. Evaluation of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Program
  47. Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth Study
  48. Outcome Prediction in Children with Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening
  49. Prenatal and Neonatal Biologic Markers for Autism
  50. Ascertain Environmental Exposure During Pregnancy

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