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...

PROTECT Team Members Present at ISEE 2019

Sep 11, 2019 | Community Engagement Core, Human Subjects & Sampling Core, Project 1 (Targeted Epidemiology), PROTECT Events and Presentations, PROTECT Team

PROTECT Team Members Present at ISEE 2019 Researchers and trainees from PROTECT attended and presented at the 31st annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE 2019). This year’s conference was held in Utrecht, the Netherlands,...

PROTECT Study intermediate report: associations between demographic risk factors and preterm birth in the first 1000 participants

Jun 24, 2019 | Community Engagement Core, Human Subjects & Sampling Core, News on Premature Birth, PROTECT Research, PROTECT Team

PROTECT Study intermediate report: associations between demographic risk factors and preterm birth in the first 1000 participants Since PROTECT has started studying the environmental causes of higher levels of preterm birth in Puerto Rico preterm birth rates have...