by mnobrega | Oct 4, 2016 | CRECE Team, Environmental Health News
CRECE and PROTECT will be taking part in a new national study led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) which aims to investigate the ways in which early exposure to a range of environmental factors influence the short- and long-term health of children. The study...
by mnobrega | Sep 29, 2016 | Community Outreach and Translation Core, CRECE Team, Events, Highlighted Outreach
On Saturday, September 24th, CRECE and PROTECT leaders Dr. Emily Zimmerman and Dr. Phil Brown presented at the Early Intervention Speech-Language Pathologist Continuing Education Symposium. The event was held at Northeastern University and was attended by more than...
by mnobrega | Sep 23, 2016 | CRECE Team
In early September, CRECE and PROTECT members attended the 28th Annual Conference for the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) held in Rome, Italy. The main theme of the conference was “Old and new risks: challenges for environmental...
by mnobrega | Sep 9, 2016 | Community Outreach and Translation Core, CRECE Team, Highlighted Outreach
On Thursday, August 25th, Dr. Gredia Huerta-Montañez (HSC, COTC) spoke at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, Texas for the 2016 Children’s Environmental U.S.-MX Border Symposium, an event organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection...
by mnobrega | Sep 9, 2016 | CRECE Team, Environmental Health News
In late March of this year, CRECE posted an article describing some of the steps that were being taken in Puerto Rico to prepare for the inevitable spread of the Zika virus on the island. Five months later, Zika transmission in Puerto Rico is no longer an emerging...
by mnobrega | Sep 7, 2016 | Community Outreach and Translation Core, CRECE Team
On Wednesday, August 24th, CRECE and PROTECT team members in Puerto Rico met with Carmen Guerrero Pérez, the Director of the EPA’s Caribbean Environmental Protection Division–a department covering all of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition to the...
