CRECE Research Center
CRECE studies air pollution impacts on child development, and pollutant mixtures and their effects on human health.News
One Year Later, CRECE and PROTECT Researchers Investigate the Health Impacts of Hurricane Maria
One year ago, on September 20th, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane and proceeded cross the island from the southeast to the northwest, leaving devastation...
CRECE Presents at the 2018 International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment, at the National University of Seoul
CRECE researchers Dr. Carmen M. Vélez Vega and Zaira Rosario presented in the 2018 International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment, better known as INCHES 2018. Dr. Vélez Vega...
Watkins Receives NIEHS Award to Study Impacts of Hurricane-related Exposure and Stress on Pregnancy Outcomes and Child Development in Puerto Rico
Dr. Deborah Watkins, a researcher for both CRECE’s Project 3and PROTECT’s Project 1, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study the impacts...
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.