by mnobrega | Nov 16, 2017 | Community Outreach and Translation Core, CRECE Team, Environmental Health News
CRECE and PROTECT Co-Director José Cordero and PROTECT Project 4 Leader Ingrid Padilla were featured in the November 16, 2017, issue of Nature describing Puerto Rico’s struggles to assess the hurricane’s health effects. The article reports on PROTECT’s and CRECE’s...
by mnobrega | Oct 26, 2017 | Environmental Health News, Project 1
On October 19, the NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers released their 2017 Children’s Centers Impact Report, and CRECE was among the centers featured within its 120 pages. The report’s theme was “protecting children’s...
by mnobrega | Jun 14, 2017 | Community Outreach and Translation Core, CRECE Team, Environmental Health News
On May 19, 2017, Dr. Gredia Huerta-Montañez was awarded the “Environmental Champion Award” by Region 2 of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Annually, the award is presented to “individuals and organizations who have contributed significantly to improving the...
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 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 | Jul 22, 2016 | CRECE Team, Environmental Health News
On June 23rd and 24th, CRECE and PROTECT team members met in Puerto Rico for an in-person meeting and celebration of the opening of the new clinic in Manatí, Puerto Rico. For the first day, the group joined in a technical discussion with a strong focus on recruitment...
