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Centers for Environmental Quality and HealthHuman activity has transformed environmental health in profound ways. While earlier environmental problems were relatively local the problems of today are persistent and global. Continued exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment, global warming, population growth, habitat destruction and social/psychosocial factors have produced crises that require long term social and technical change for their solutions. The science and knowledge we bring to the looming environmental crises must evolve to enable prevention/control and protection of public health; the programs in the Centers for Environmental Quality and Health seek to expand our knowledge base, provide exceptional training of students to address these issues, and interact with Southern California communities to better interface between the University and the public. The following Centers and Programs comprise the Centers for Environmental Quality and Health.Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) - (website) Established by the California Legislature and Executive Branch in 1978, the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) is one of 3 state funded programs for research, training, and service in the area of occupational and environmental health. COEH faculty from Public Health, Nursing, and Medicine, train occupational and environmental health professionals and scientists, conduct research, and provide services through consultation, education, and outreach. Programs include environmental chemistry, occupational/environmental epidemiology, occupational ergonomics, industrial hygiene, occupational/environmental medicine, occupational/environmental health nursing, toxicology, gene-environment interactions, psychosocial factors in the work environment, and occupational health education. Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center - (website) The Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (SCEHSC) was established through funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Researchers and professionals from UCLA and the University of Southern California collaborate to create an interdisciplinary approach to the study and advancement of research in environmental health. The SCEHSC primarily focuses on using epidemiologic methods to study effects of the environment on human health, especially with regard to the multiethnic populations of California and the Pacific Rim, with an overall goal to understand how environmental factors affect health and how personal factors modify response. The Center funds an Environmental Health Research Pilot Project Program to advance research into new areas of environmental health and maintains a Community Outreach and Education Program to develop models for community outreach and school curricula to educate the public on how to control, reduce, or eliminate the threat of living with environmental hazards. The Southern California NIOSH Education and Research Center - (website) The Southern California NIOSH Education and Research Center (ERC) is one of 16 multidisciplinary centers in the U.S. supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for education and research in the field of occupational health. The Center supports graduate degree programs in Occupational Medicine at UCLA and UCI, Occupational Health Nursing, and Industrial Hygiene at UCLA. For these programs the Center provides student and infrastructure support. The Center supports approximately 40 graduate students in the field of occupational health. It provides a focus for multidisciplinary research in the broad field of occupational health. It also supports a Continuing Education and Outreach Program, Hazardous Substances training for hazardous waste workers and Industrial Hygiene students, and a Pilot Project Research Training Program for Occupational Safety and Health trainees. The Center is closely linked with the Centers for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) at UCLA and UC Irvine. Southern California Particle Center and Supersite - (website) The Southern California Particle Center and Supersite (SCPCS) was established in 1999 through funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (ARB) to study the nature and health effects of airborne particulate matter (PM). This funding has brought together, in close collaboration, faculty from UCLA, USC, UC Riverside, UC Davis, UC Irvine, Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Sonoma Technology, Michigan State University, and the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Participating faculty within the SCPCS comprise a wide range of disciplines, including toxicology, epidemiology, biostatistics, immunology, pharmacology, medicine, atmospheric and environmental chemistry, exposure assessment, and aerosol science. To date, the SCPCS has generated a wide range of products and has produced important findings and data on air pollution in the Los Angeles Basin. SCPCS is in a strong position to make important contributions to the question of how PM affects health. Southern California Consortium on Asthma and Outdoor Air Quality Southern California Consortium on Asthma and Outdoor Air Quality was recently created by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) to further research the link between air pollution and asthma. This Consortium seeks to address the underlying basis and causation of asthma associated with air pollutants, placing emphasis on the mechanistic basis of exposure related health effects, on research which provides additional insights into the sources of pollution responsible for asthma, and on creating greater knowledge of dose-response relationships. The Consortium housed at UCLA and includes researchers from UC Irvine, UC Riverside, USC, Loma Linda, and Rancho Los Amigos. UCLA-Fogarty Training Program in Occupational and Environmental Health - (website) The UCLA-Fogarty Training Program in Occupational and Environmental Health was established to provide training to graduate students from Mexico in environmental and occupational health fields. Since 1995, masters and doctoral students enrolled in Mexican institutions have been brought to UCLA for training in such fields as air pollution, water quality, environmental chemistry, epidemiology, ergonomics, industrial hygiene/exposure assessment, pollution prevention, and toxicology. Training is provided via classroom work and collaborative research between UCLA and our Mexican research partners. Center for Excellence in Public Health Tracking The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has created a new Center for Excellence in Public Health Tracking at the Schools of Public Health at UC Berkeley and UCLA. This progressive partnership brings together the collective expertise of researchers from the Northern and UCLA COEHs and the California Department of Health Services to track environmental hazards and create research driven policy options for a national tracking system. One of three nationwide Centers, the initial focus will be on the association between air pollution and asthma, utilizing data collected across California. In addition to the research conducted, a major effort will be undertaken to create a methodology for an environmental health tracking system. |
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