National Children's Study
The University of Minnesota has been awarded nearly $14 million dollars over five years to be a lead study center in the National Children's Study to assess the effects of environmental and genetic factors on child and human health in the United States. The study center will manage local participant recruitment and data collection in the largest and most comprehensive study of child and human health ever conducted in the United States.
The University is one of 22 new study centers of the National Children's Study, a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (including the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
For more information about the National Children's Study and a complete list of study centers, visit http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/.