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Capability: Climate Change

Project Timeline: 9/20/2012-8/31/2014

A partnership was established between the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control, the Sequoia Foundation, and the California Department of Public Health to plan a Regional China Global Environmental and Occupational Health Hub. The Hub builds capacity for environmental and occupational health research, training and policy development associated with climate change, water quality and worker health and safety. It plays a leadership role in a global network of hubs devoted to increasing knowledgeable broadly of environmental and occupational health and improving conditions around the world.The planning team established overarching needs of vision, leadership development, and policy translation for a successful hub. They also conducted a needs and opportunities assessment of China's environmental and occupational problems and policy environment and the resources available to address them. The team also planed and structured a regional China GEO Health Hub and developed research hypotheses and data sources for three focal areas, climate change, water quality, and worker health. Lastly, the team identified activities to build sustainable research capacity and evaluate the planning process while developing an evaluation plan. The Regional China GEO Health Hub is a center for a wide range of experts in epidemiology, biostatistics, genetics, environmental science, industrial hygiene, occupational health, system science, toxicology, behavioral science, implementation science, research and policy leadership development, evidence-based design and community planning and development.

Projects

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

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