Abstract

The mission of the Center's Community Outreach and Education Program(COEP) is to increase the public understanding of the effects of the environment on human health and ways to reduce harmful exposures by linking the Center's research and its investigators with school, community, professional and policy making target populations, emphasizing underserved populations and children. The goals are to promote K-16 education about environmental health, provide education and technical expertise to community based organizations, contribute to public policy, facilitate communication between the Center investigators and the community, educate the professional community on environmental health, encourage environmental justice, and develop evaluation methods for judging the effectiveness of the COEP in working with the public and community organizations. The specific agenda of the COEP focuses on asthma, other respiratory diseases, lead, and cance

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Type
Center Core Grants (P30)
Project #
3P30ES007048-06S1
Application #
6564415
Study Section
Environmental Health Sciences Review Committee (EHS)
Project Start
2001-04-02
Project End
2002-03-31
Budget Start
Budget End
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
2002
Total Cost
$117,873
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Southern California
Department
Type
DUNS #
041544081
City
Los Angeles
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
90089

  Publications

Liu, Gang; Mukherjee, Bhramar; Lee, Seunggeun et al. (2018) Robust Tests for Additive Gene-Environment Interaction in Case-Control Studies Using Gene-Environment Independence. Am J Epidemiol 187:366-377
Wheelock, Kylie; Zhang, Junfeng Jim; McConnell, Rob et al. (2018) A novel method for source-specific hemoglobin adducts of nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Environ Sci Process Impacts :
Younan, Diana; Tuvblad, Catherine; Franklin, Meredith et al. (2018) Longitudinal Analysis of Particulate Air Pollutants and Adolescent Delinquent Behavior in Southern California. J Abnorm Child Psychol 46:1283-1293
Barrington-Trimis, Jessica L; Leventhal, Adam M; Alonzo, Todd A et al. (2018) Performance of cigarette susceptibility index among e-cigarette and hookah users. Drug Alcohol Depend 183:43-50
Ogasawara, Noriko; Poposki, Julie A; Klingler, Aiko I et al. (2018) IL-10, TGF-?, and glucocorticoid prevent the production of type 2 cytokines in human group 2 innate lymphoid cells. J Allergy Clin Immunol 141:1147-1151.e8
Urman, Robert; McConnell, Rob; Unger, Jennifer B et al. (2018) Electronic Cigarette and Cigarette Social Environments and Ever Use of Each Product: A Prospective Study of Young Adults in Southern California. Nicotine Tob Res :
Farzan, Shohreh F; Howe, Caitlin G; Chen, Yu et al. (2018) Prenatal lead exposure and elevated blood pressure in children. Environ Int 121:1289-1296
Cho, Junhan; Goldenson, Nicholas I; Stone, Matthew D et al. (2018) Characterizing Polytobacco Use Trajectories and Their Associations With Substance Use and Mental Health Across Mid-Adolescence. Nicotine Tob Res 20:S31-S38
Moss, Lilit C; Gauderman, William J; Lewinger, Juan Pablo et al. (2018) Using Bayes model averaging to leverage both gene main effects and G?×? E interactions to identify genomic regions in genome-wide association studies. Genet Epidemiol :
Chen, Wansu; Qian, Lei; Shi, Jiaxiao et al. (2018) Comparing performance between log-binomial and robust Poisson regression models for estimating risk ratios under model misspecification. BMC Med Res Methodol 18:63

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