Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”

Martin Luther King Jr.
Dear Friends,

As we welcome a new year, Dr. Martin Luther King's teachings speak to us once again. At the Center, we continue to pivot and adapt to continue our research and communicate research findings to protect children's environmental health.

We are grateful to our community advisory boards, partners and study participants for their ongoing commitment to safeguard children's environmental health and justice. Their involvement is a testament of "what they are doing for others".

We would also like to express our gratitude to the health care workers and essential workers who continue to serve during the Omicron surge.

Stay safe and healthy.

CCCEH and Department of EHS Research
RESEARCH HERE IS HELPING TO ENSURE LONGER AND MORE ROBUST LIVES FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. December 2021

PROTECTING THE LITTLEST LIVES 
As a young Columbia professor in the 1980s, Frederica Perera, MPH ’76, DrPH ’82, PhD ’12, studied how exposure to environmental contaminants could result in damage to DNA and eventual disease. A pioneer in molecular epidemiology, she was focused on detecting lung cancer at its earliest stages. She needed a control sample that would be as pure as one could get, so she settled on pristine cord blood. READ MORE

BAN OF HEATING OIL #6 EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING AIR POLLUTION, December 2021
In 2012, New York City established the Clean Heat Program to eliminate the use of residual heating oil which had been identified as a major source of air pollution in the city and linked to multiple adverse health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease.

In a study of pregnant women, exposure to phthalates, a group of chemicals found in plastics and other household products, was associated with elevated blood pressure during late pregnancy, as well as long-term changes to blood pressure. READ MORE

In the weeks since the emergence of the Omicron variant, the United States has once again led the world with a record of confirmed cases of COVID-19. In a conversation with Transmission, Columbia Mailman Professor Jeffrey Shaman, a world-renowned authority in infectious disease modeling, says the actual number of infections is many times larger still and they continue to accumulate at a near-exponential pace. READ MORE
Support the success of the NYC Clean Heat Program
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Burning Dirty Heating Oil infographic available in English and Spanish. Download at our CCCEH website or email mu3@cumc.columbia.edu, (email subject line: Poster Wanted) and we will send you posters.
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Help us create a world in which every child has a healthy start.
 
The Center’s research is powering action to reduce the impacts of climate change, air pollution, and toxic chemicals on children and families.

Your support is yielding both immediate and long-term benefits to children’s health today and in the future. Your gift will protect the gains that we have achieved together.
 
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With Gratitude
Julie Herbstman, PhD
Director, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health

Frederica P. Perera, DrPH, PhD
Director of Translational Research and Founding Director
Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health

Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health