Making a Difference

The Children’s Environmental Health Sciences Core Center supports collaborative research among basic, clinical and public health investigators in order to understand the development of reproductive and childhood diseases in relation to known or suspected environmental determinants.

Investigators convert scientific understanding into effective strategies to prevent environmentally-dependent childhood disease. Additionally, the Center’s community outreach arm aims to educate local and regional communities about the burden of environmentally-related reproductive and childhood diseases and effective ways to reduce them.

Using fathead minnows as a model, students learn first hand how exposure to lead can affect human health. Using fathead minnows as a model, students learn first hand how exposure to lead can affect human health. Dr. Rebecca Klaper, Shaw Associate Professor in the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences, discusses the issues of pharmaceuticals in the environment. Dr. Ruth A. Etzel has been appointed as the new Director of the Integrative Health Sciences Core. In this position, she will lead a team to facilitate both patient-oriented and population-based research on child health and the environment.

 
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