CRECE Research Center
CRECE studies air pollution impacts on child development, and pollutant mixtures and their effects on human health.News
Hines, ROUTES Scholar, Travels to University of Illinois to Train PhD Students on CRECE’s Non-Nutritive Suck Device
On December 11th-13th, 2017, ROUTES Scholar Morgan Hines visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne (UIUC) in order to train PhD students in Dr. Susan Schantz’s lab on setting-up and...
Rovira, Former ROUTES Scholar, Discusses CRECE Co-Op Experience in News@Northeastern
On December 12th, 2017, News@Northeastern featured the article “Co-op in Puerto Rico Expands Student’s Interest in Environmental Health,” which detailed the ROUTES experience of former scholar...
Two months after Irma and Maria, CRECE & PROTECT Continue Efforts to Support the Community in Puerto Rico
In order to give readers a full-perspective on the work CRECE has been completing in Puerto Rico since the hurricanes, this article provides updates to a piece posted on this site on October 19th,...
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.