PROTECT Team Hosts Site Visits for ECHO and RECOVER Studies in Puerto Rico

Feb 16, 2023 | Community Engagement Core, Data Management & Analysis Core, Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Team

PROTECT Team Hosts Site Visits for ECHO and RECOVER Studies in Puerto Rico In January, the PROTECT team hosted ECHO and RECOVER site visits in their research facilities and health centers in Puerto Rico. The visits gave the research teams the chance to meet in person...

Mi PROTECT Report Back Platform Pilot Test Shows the Importance of Research Right to Know and Participant Feedback

Feb 6, 2023 | Community Engagement Core, Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Research, PROTECT Trainees

Mi PROTECT Report Back Platform Pilot Test Shows the Importance of Research Right to Know and Participant Feedback A paper in January’s PLOS Digital Health reports on the results of a pilot test of PROTECT’s mobile-based report back application Mi PROTECT. PROTECT...

PROTECT Investigator Gredia Huerta-Montañez Discusses the Intersection of Children’s Health and Climate Change in Editorial for JAMA Pediatrics

Jan 5, 2023 | Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Team

PROTECT Investigator Gredia Huerta-Montañez Discusses the Intersection of Children’s Health and Climate Change in Editorial for JAMA Pediatrics An editorial written by ECHO and PROTECT investigator Dr. Gredia Huerta-Montañez and Dr. Aaron Bernstein was published...

PROTECT Publication Analyzes the Impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Maternal Health

Nov 10, 2022 | Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Research, PROTECT Team, PROTECT Trainees

PROTECT Publication Analyzes the Impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Maternal Health A new paper published in the Children journal of pediatrics and led by PROTECT trainee Irene Lafarga Previdi looks at the experiences of pregnant and post-partum women during and...

PROTECT Co-Director José Cordero Receives 2021 Arnold J. Capute Award

Oct 25, 2021 | Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Team

PROTECT Co-Director José Cordero Receives 2021 Arnold J. Capute Award PROTECT co-director and Human Subjects and Sampling Core Leader José Cordero has been awarded the 2021 Arnold J. Capute Award by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on Children with...

Individuals with socioeconomic disadvantage among Puerto Rican cohort have elevated levels of oxidative stress according to recent PROTECT Study

Mar 25, 2020 | Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Research, PROTECT Team, PROTECT Trainees

Stress is generally defined as demands that tax or exceed the adaptive capacity of an organism, which can result in psychological and biological changes. Oxidative stress is an imbalance between free radicals and antioxidants in the body which can ultimately cause...