Capabilities
Overall description of capabilities
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- Capability: Environmental Health Impact Assessment
Project Timeline: 8/19/2011-5/31/2015
Sequoia foundation staff is responsible for conducting the following activities:
1) Identifying the appropriate sampling population based on availability of specimens and/or data from prenatal screening, newborn screening, pregnancy testing, cord blood collection, and one of two in-hospital questionnaires;
2) creation of an analytic data file with data from a variety of data sets as well as laboratory coating results;
3) pulling, labeling, tracking, and shipping 2300 urine specimens, 2300 maternal serum specimens, 857 cord blood specimen, and 150 newborn blood spots; and
4) provide epidemiologic expertise and participate in study meetings and collaborate on manuscripts and interpretation of findings.
Projects
- HIA Program Development
- Placer County Biomass Energy Facility
- San Francisco Bay Seafood Consumption Study
- Develop Mid-trimester Screening Algorithms for Early Onset Preeclampsia
- Phytoestrogen and Time to Pregnancy
- Tobacco Exposure in Pregnant Women in Minority Populations
- Reduce Exposure to Unhealthy Air in the Imperial Valley, California near the U.S.-Mexico Border
- Neuro-Developmental Disabilities Screening and Assessment in Uganda
- Genome-Wide Association Study of Childhood Leukemia by Hispanic Status
- Characterization of CFTR Mutations Among Non-White CF Patients
- Building Capacity for Health Impact Assessment at State and Territorial Health Agencies
- Perinatal Exposure to Airborne Pollutants and Associations with Autism Phenotype
- Designing a Next Generation Science Standards Ready Air Quality Science High School Curriculum (Phase I and II)
- Social and Climate Change Migration Policy: Government of Tuvalu (South Pacific)
- Tobacco and cannabis exposure during pregnancy in six race/ethnic subgroups in California
- Studying Mothers and their Children at Risk from In Utero Exposure to Grandmaternal Smoking
- Public Health Effects of Increased Prescribe Burns for Wildlife Management
- East Bay Diesel Exposures Project (EBDEP)
- Expanding California Biomonitoring Database through Statewide Surveillance and Targeted Population Studies
- California Region Exposure Study 3 (CARE-3)
- California Region Exposure Study 2 (CARE-2)
- California Region Exposure Study I (CARE-LA)
- California's Strategic Plan Implementation Grants for Asthma
- Environmental Health Symposium for Promotores and Community Health Workers
- Palos Verdes Shelf Fish Contamination Project
- San Francisco Bay Fish Project
- Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
- Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
- California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
- Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
- PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
- Early Childhood Mortality Study
- Preterm Markers Study-2006/07
- Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth: the Inflammatory Response
- Preterm Markers Study-2009/10
- Development of a Research-Ready Pregnancy and Newborn Biobank in California
- National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
- Newborn Blood Spots, Collaborative Project with UCD Public Health Sciences Department
- Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia
- Evaluation of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Program
- Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth Study
- Outcome Prediction in Children with Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening
- Prenatal and Neonatal Biologic Markers for Autism
- Ascertain Environmental Exposure During Pregnancy
- Enhancing the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program
- CA Title 17 Analysis: Training/Certifying Renovation, Remodeling, and Painting Activities
- Children's Health Initiative - Impacts of Childhood Asthma in California
- Prenatal Smoke Exposure and Age at Menarche
- Selection In Utero: A Test of Competing Explanations
- iCARE General Population File