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Capability: Community Engagement and Health Education

Project Timeline: 6/1/16 through 2/20/18

Sequoia Foundation principal developed the first national Social and Climate Change Migration Policy, under the guidance of the Prime Minister of Tuvalu, Enele Sopoaga, for one of the most isolated island nations in the world, and the one at greatest jeopardy of compelled climate-related abandonment.  Tuvalu, population 10,000, at an average elevation of 1.8 m, will be the first nation to be physically and permanently lost to climate change.  The assessment involved extensive interviews and data collection with elected leaders, medical and public health personnel, government staff, school management and teachers, small business owners, and a range of NGO representatives present on the island nation.  Central to the assessment were issues of public health, in a country with one of the highest concentrations of obesity, diabetes, and related co-morbidities in the world; and how best to initiate behavioral changes, child-rearing, and other cultural changes in anticipation of an inevitable evacuation.  

 

Projects

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

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