Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development

The Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development (CRECE, Spanish for “grow”) is a Children’s Environmental Health Center program directed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. CRECE studies 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 – an underserved, highly-exposed, and low-income population with significant health disparities.