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Capability: Community Engagement and Health Education

Project Timeline: 1999 - 2004

The Palos Verdes Shelf, situated off the coast of Los Angeles, is one of the largest contaminated sediment sites in the United States. The DDT and PCB contamination was caused by the Montrose Chemical Company and other industries, which discharged chemicals into the Los Angeles County sewer system.  In 1999, Sequoia partnered with the Environmental Health Investigations Branch to engage local community groups to increase awareness of contaminated fish in the Palos Verdes Shelf region. Staff organized a fish contamination discussion forum, produced materials, conducted workshops, and held trainings with community organizations.

Projects

  1. San Francisco Bay Fish Project
  2. Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
  3. Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
  4. California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
  5. Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
  6. PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
  7. Early Childhood Mortality Study
  8. Preterm Markers Study-2006/07
  9. Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth: the Inflammatory Response
  10. Preterm Markers Study-2009/10
  11. Development of a Research-Ready Pregnancy and Newborn Biobank in California
  12. National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
  13. Newborn Blood Spots, Collaborative Project with UCD Public Health Sciences Department
  14. Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia
  15. Evaluation of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Program
  16. Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth Study
  17. Outcome Prediction in Children with Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening
  18. Prenatal and Neonatal Biologic Markers for Autism
  19. Ascertain Environmental Exposure During Pregnancy
  20. Enhancing the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program
  21. CA Title 17 Analysis: Training/Certifying Renovation, Remodeling, and Painting Activities
  22. Children's Health Initiative - Impacts of Childhood Asthma in California
  23. Prenatal Smoke Exposure and Age at Menarche
  24. Selection In Utero: A Test of Competing Explanations
  25. iCARE General Population File
  26. Case-Control Study of Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth
  27. California's Chronic Disease Environmental Health Surveillance System
  28. Design of California's Response and Surveillance System for Childhood Lead Exposures (RASSCLE II) System
  29. Data Mapping California's Blood Lead Testing Reports
  30. California Electronic Blood Lead Reporting Security and Data Transmission Upgrades
  31. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry Data Analysis

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