CRECE Research Center
CRECE studies air pollution impacts on child development, and pollutant mixtures and their effects on human health.News
CRECE and PROTECT Release New Reproductive Health Bulletin for Healthcare Professionals
The CRECE Community Outreach Core with PROTECT Project 1 and Research Translation Core have collaborated to produce a Reproductive Health and the Environment Bulletin, which presents up-to-date...
Puerto Rico Prepares for Zika Epidemic
By the end of 2016, 25% of Puerto Rico’s 3.5 million inhabitants are expected to become infected with the Zika virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To help prevent the...
CRECE’s Dr. Zimmerman Featured as ADInstruments Science Hero
Project 1 researcher Dr. Emily Zimmerman has been featured on the ADInstruments website as a Science Hero for her innovative work on preterm infant development. Zimmerman is developing a...
CRECE Publications
Find our research in leading environmental health journals.
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.