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What is CRECE?

CRECE 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. Find out more by clicking on the “About” tab above.

Recent Posts

  • CRECE Early Career Investigator Emily Zimmerman to be promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
  • Huerta-Montañez elected to Executive Committee of the Council on Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  • PROTECT CEC Co-Director Carmen Vélez-Vega Appointed to EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee
  • PROTECT Researcher Dr. Carmen Vélez Vega Wins Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award
  • Former ROUTES Scholar & CRECE Trainee Morgan Hines presents at the 2019 Boston Motor Speech Symposium