Centers
Learn about the Centers across the nation who are working hard to Protect Kids’ Health.
CEHRT Centers are united by a common goal to improve children’s health by communicating valuable research findings to people working to keep kids well. Each Center provides infrastructure, training opportunities, data science tools, stakeholder engagement, and time-sensitive pilot grants to support the development and dissemination of evidence-informed interventions that protect children from environmental hazards where they live, go to school, and play.
Advancing Science, Practice, Programming and Policy in Research Translation for Children’s Environment Health (ASPIRE)
The ASPIRE Center creates novel data science surveillance tools that strategically mine social media feeds and existing environmental health tracking and health care utilization databases.
They work closely with partners at Oregon Health Authority and Coordinated Care Organizations, Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families, the Oregon State University (OSU) Center for Health Innovation, Coordinated Care Organizations, and OSU’s Extension Services. These researchers and practitioners create, test, evaluate, and deliver evidence- based interventions where they are needed the most.
The ASPIRE Center is working to create an online portal that will serve as a searchable repository for comprehensive evidence based CEH intervention implementation plans that can be adapted by researchers and practitioners to local communities across the nation.
Bridging Research, Lung Health, and the Environment (BREATHE) Children’s Center
The BREATHE Center translates findings regarding environmental exposures that impact children’s respiratory health and interventions to reduce risk.
They use the NIEHS translational framework to put science into practice with novel, evidence- based communication strategies that inform and engage students, community members, health professionals, and policymakers to reduce harmful exposures and promote children’s respiratory health.
The Kids BREATHE Lung Health Dashboard displays relevant, actionable information with map- based visualization strategies and storyboard techniques to engage the public.
The Center’s Lung Health Ambassadors Program (LHAP) curriculum also focuses on children’s respiratory environmental health.
The Center for Children’s Health Assessment, Research Translation, and Combating Environmental Racism (CHARTER)
Emory University has partnered with faculty from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Emory Nursing Center for Health and Risk Communication to advance the science of environmental health communication, media psychology, behavioral science, environmental health literacy and community engagement.
The Center breaks scientific findings into understandable, applicable, and actionable messages that result in direct and lasting impact on Black communities in the Atlanta region and beyond.
The NYU Collaborative Center in Children’s Environmental Health Research and Translation
The Center serves as a resource for the CEH community by:
(1) developing meaningful prevention and intervention strategies that have promise to scale
(2) adapting these strategies for diverse populations or settings, to achieve higher population-wide impact
(3) rigorously quantifying the impacts of manufacturing changes, policy interventions, or dietary and other behavioral interventions designed to reduce exposure.
The cross-cutting themes of NYU Center include: intervention testing, implementation science, health equity and economic evaluation.
NYU CEHRT is also home to two Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) cohort centers, and therefore extremely well-poised to integrate new knowledge about emerging exposures likely to emerge from ECHO and the broader CEH community.
Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health (PRCCEH)
The Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health is dedicated to developing and implementing effective strategies to bring children’s environmental health research to the community, policy-making, and healthcare.
The Center’s goal is to improve the health and wellness of children across the country, by first starting in Philadelphia and the surrounding region.
The children in this area face many environmental threats and health problems– asthma, lead poisoning, air pollution and toxic chemicals.
Together, the Center’s partners and member researchers work to implement real-world solutions and interventions in Philadelphia to serve as a model for success elsewhere.
Southern California Center for Children’s Environmental Health Translational Research
Near-roadway and regional air pollution, industrial releases, goods movement and growing oil and gas production in urban areas vulnerable to wildfires all threaten to increase the burden of environmental disease. In California and worldwide, these threats disproportionately affect children, especially in marginalized communities and communities of color.
The mission of the Southern California Center for Children’s Environmental Health Translational Research is to reduce the burden of childhood air pollution-related diseases by building an innovative framework for multidirectional engagement in which communities, government and civil society use science to develop solutions, with a focus on environmental justice.
The theme of the Center is Urbanism, Air Pollution, Children’s Health, and Environmental Justice. The Center framework includes novel approaches to youth engagement and community science, urban design and policy solutions, and communication and public knowledge to imagine an LA without fossil fuels.
National Coordinating Center: Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
CEHN is a national organization with 30 years of experience leading the field of children’s environmental health across sectors.
CEHN’s commitment to supporting, synthesizing, and sharing rigorous independent science, its long history of convening diverse audiences, and the trust that it has earned among communities and stakeholders, positions CEHN well to act as the national hub for collecting, sharing, and exchanging CEH knowledge.
CEHN works collaboratively with NIEHS and the funded CEHRT Centers to advance the overall goals of the CEHRT Program, facilitate cohesiveness and collaboration across the network, and leverage the collective science into meaningful action for the public. CEHN serves as the National Coordinating Center through a partnership with Emory’s CHARTER Center.
Funder: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
NIEHS conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease, as one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health
NIEHS has developed and sustained a strong base of children’s environmental health (CEH) research projects for more than 20 years. The new CEHRT program builds upon that foundation and aims to establish a national network of Centers to develop strategies to translate key CEH research findings to relevant stakeholders.