This summer, the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health is proud to introduce you to our future environmental leaders-our graduate level practicum students, and our undergraduate and high school interns.
This year's practicum students hail from Columbia University Mailman's School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Department. Our interns are from our very own CCCEH's EHJ Advocates youth council, and students of New York Presbyterian Lang Youth Medical Program, our community partner, serving local middle and high school youth. Click on their names to read about their CCCEH projects.
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Meet Our Practicum Students & Interns |
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CCCEH and COVID-19 Publications |
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As Pennsylvania moves to join a regional greenhouse gas initiative, experts say it will also reduce toxics, foster healthier kids, and save the state billions. But GOP policymakers and industry groups remain opposed.
"Air pollution doesn't respect state lines or any kind of border, and a lot of what kids are exposed to is generated outside of their immediate area," Frederica Perera, DrPH, PhD, professor of environmental health sciences, Director Translational Research at Columbia Mailman School who led the 2020 study on RGGI and children's health, told EHN. So even for children who live near other polluting facilities, Perera said, "there certainly would be benefits from RGGI." READ MORE
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“This study adds to a growing body of literature showing the deleterious health effects of prenatal exposure to air pollution on child health outcomes, including academic achievement,” says co-author Julie Herbstman, PhD, CCCEH Director and associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia Mailman School. “Reducing levels of air pollution may prevent these adverse outcomes and lead to improvements in children’s academic achievement.”
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The study is the first to investigate and document age and gender-specific changes in adolescent mental health problems and substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings are published in The Lancet Psychiatry.
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CCCEH Child Cosmetic Study |
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"Taking It to the Streets" |
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COVID-19 has made things difficult but we at CCCEH continue to persevere. With our face masks and vaccinations, we have initiated outdoor study recruitment and community outreach activities. This July, research worker Daniela Ramirez with COTC interns, Zhiru Wang and Nephthalie Jerome engaged with over 35 individuals-recruiting pregnant women for our Fair Start Study, distributing over 100 Healthy Home Healthy Child educational materials and collected community views on concerning environmental issues for PSA development. We are excited to continue our community work through the Fall months. |
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We are recruiting:
- Pregnant women 30 weeks or less
- Delivering at NYP hospital or Allen Pavillion
Thank you!
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Support Columbia's Center for Children's
Environmental Health
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Help us create a world in which every child has a healthy start.
The Center’s research is powering action to reduce the impacts of climate change, air pollution, and toxic chemicals on children and families.
Your support is yielding both immediate and long-term benefits to children’s health today and in the future. Your gift will protect the gains that we have achieved together.
We hope you will make a tax-free gift donation to the Center in order to continue this important work.
With Gratitude
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Julie Herbstman, PhD
Director, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health
Frederica P. Perera, DrPH, PhD
Director of Translational Research and Founding Director
Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health
Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health
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