(AGENPARL) – lun 16 ottobre 2023 Issued: Oct 16, 2023 (11:19am EDT)
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EPA Awards $3.8M in Research Grants to Establish Research Centers to Address
Children’s Health in Underserved, Rural Agricultural Communities
WASHINGTON (Oct. 16, 2023) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) announced $3,798,738 in grant funding to two institutions to establish
research centers to address children’s cumulative health impacts from
agricultural and non-chemical exposures. 
Children in underserved, rural agricultural communities face increased health
risks due to the combination of agricultural pollutants in air, water, and
soil, as well as non-chemical stressors such as poverty and limited access to
services. There is an urgent need to investigate the cumulative health impacts
of chemical and non-chemical exposures for children in these communities to
help inform better health outcomes for them as they grow.
“Children are especially vulnerable to pollutants due to how fast they grow
and how they play and interact with their environment,” said Chris Frey,
Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Research and Development. “EPA
is funding these research centers to identify effective, science-based options
aimed at reducing early childhood health disparities in agricultural
communities, and as part of our broader commitment to developing the science
needed to protect children where they live and play.” 
The research centers will investigate the cumulative health impacts of early
lifestage (prenatal and from childhood up to adolescence) exposures to
pollutants and the added effect of non-chemical stressors among children in
these communities across the United States. The research announced today is
part of EPA’s larger effort to advance children’s environmental health and
environmental justice by effectively reducing early childhood and lifetime
health disparities in these communities.
The following institutions are receiving awards: 
• Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla., to use multi-disciplinary
approaches to evaluate chemical and psychosocial stressors and promote
children’s cumulative health in rural and agricultural communities such as
Immokalee, Fla.
• University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Okla., to
mitigate the chemical and non-chemical stressors that affect school
absenteeism caused by gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases in Texas and
Oklahoma.
Learn more about the funded recipients.   
Learn more about EPA research grants.
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