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Capability: Community Engagement and Health Education

Project Timeline: 2/1/2010 - 7/29/2011

The Sequoia Foundation partnered with the California Department of Public Health to reduce exposures to unhealthy air by educating schools and the greater community about the health effects of poor air quality and how to limit exposure. Sequoia worked with institutions that serve children and other populations disproportionately impacted by unhealthy air to initiate programs and sustainable institutional policies to reduce exposure on bad air quality days.  Sequoia utilized the American Lungs Association's (ALA) Flag Program to assist schools address bad air quality days. Each day, participating schools post a colored flag that corresponds to the colors used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency air quality index. Sequoia provided an indoor activity curriculum to ensure that students participate in physical activity, even on poor air days.

Projects

  1. Neuro-Developmental Disabilities Screening and Assessment in Uganda
  2. Genome-Wide Association Study of Childhood Leukemia by Hispanic Status
  3. Characterization of CFTR Mutations Among Non-White CF Patients
  4. Building Capacity for Health Impact Assessment at State and Territorial Health Agencies
  5. Perinatal Exposure to Airborne Pollutants and Associations with Autism Phenotype
  6. Designing a Next Generation Science Standards Ready Air Quality Science High School Curriculum (Phase I and II)
  7. Social and Climate Change Migration Policy: Government of Tuvalu (South Pacific)
  8. Tobacco and cannabis exposure during pregnancy in six race/ethnic subgroups in California
  9. Studying Mothers and their Children at Risk from In Utero Exposure to Grandmaternal Smoking
  10. Public Health Effects of Increased Prescribe Burns for Wildlife Management
  11. East Bay Diesel Exposures Project (EBDEP)
  12. Expanding California Biomonitoring Database through Statewide Surveillance and Targeted Population Studies
  13. California Region Exposure Study 3 (CARE-3)
  14. California Region Exposure Study 2 (CARE-2)
  15. California Region Exposure Study I (CARE-LA)
  16. California's Strategic Plan Implementation Grants for Asthma
  17. Environmental Health Symposium for Promotores and Community Health Workers
  18. Palos Verdes Shelf Fish Contamination Project
  19. San Francisco Bay Fish Project
  20. Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
  21. Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
  22. California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
  23. Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
  24. PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
  25. Early Childhood Mortality Study
  26. Preterm Markers Study-2006/07
  27. Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth: the Inflammatory Response
  28. Preterm Markers Study-2009/10
  29. Development of a Research-Ready Pregnancy and Newborn Biobank in California
  30. National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
  31. Newborn Blood Spots, Collaborative Project with UCD Public Health Sciences Department
  32. Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia
  33. Evaluation of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Program
  34. Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth Study
  35. Outcome Prediction in Children with Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening
  36. Prenatal and Neonatal Biologic Markers for Autism
  37. Ascertain Environmental Exposure During Pregnancy
  38. Enhancing the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program
  39. CA Title 17 Analysis: Training/Certifying Renovation, Remodeling, and Painting Activities
  40. Children's Health Initiative - Impacts of Childhood Asthma in California
  41. Prenatal Smoke Exposure and Age at Menarche
  42. Selection In Utero: A Test of Competing Explanations
  43. iCARE General Population File
  44. Case-Control Study of Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth
  45. California's Chronic Disease Environmental Health Surveillance System
  46. Design of California's Response and Surveillance System for Childhood Lead Exposures (RASSCLE II) System
  47. Data Mapping California's Blood Lead Testing Reports
  48. California Electronic Blood Lead Reporting Security and Data Transmission Upgrades
  49. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry Data Analysis

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