CRECE Research Center
CRECE studies air pollution impacts on child development, and pollutant mixtures and their effects on human health.News
Dr. Huerta-Montañez Meets with CDC to Discuss Zika
On June 11, Dr. Gredia Huerta-Montañez met with Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), during his visit to Puerto Rico. The meeting was attended by...
Dr. Gredia Huerta-Montanez Presents on Zika at CHPAC Meeting
On May 24-25, Dr. Gredia Huerta-Montanez (HSC, COTC) attended the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) meeting in Washington, DC, where she presented on the Zika virus. The CHPAC...
CRECE and PROTECT Open New Clinic in Puerto Rico
In mid-April, CRECE and PROTECT (Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats) began seeing participants at a new clinic located in Manatí, Puerto Rico. The clinic is designed to create...
CRECE Publications
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Released: Children's Centers Impact Report
The NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers have recently released their Children’s Centers Impact Report.
Research Outcomes
Between 2015 and 2022, the Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico (CRECE) studied how mixtures of environmental exposures and other factors affect the health and development of infants and children living in the heavily-contaminated island of Puerto Rico.
Since 2016, CRECE has participated in the NIH’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program. ECHO unites mother and child cohorts across the United States to better understand the impacts of environmental exposures on children’s health. More information about the CRECE cohort’s involvement, including links to recent ECHO publications involving CRECE researchers, are available on NIH RePORTER.