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Your Environment. Your Health.

Final Progress Reports: Columbia University: Research Translation Core

Superfund Research Program

Research Translation Core

Project Leader: Steven N. Chillrud
Co-Investigator: Stuart Braman (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University)
Grant Number: P42ES010349
Funding Period: 2006-2021

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Final Progress Reports

Year:   2020  2016  2010 

To enhance facilitation of effective communication among SRP scientists, trainees, government partners, and stakeholders the Columbia University SRP Research Translation Core (RTC) established a Twitter account, @Columbia_SRP, to announce webinars, videos, publications, presentations, and awards, and to follow the activities of the SRP network and partners.

The RTC released its fourth arsenic awareness video, “Arsenic in Well Water: Treatment Options,” along with a set of arsenic treatment FAQs. This video was shown at the 2016 EHS FEST Film Festival. The video and FAQs were developed in collaboration with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and a Barnard Workshop in Sustainable Development and are available on the New Jersey Arsenic Awareness Initiative website. The website has been improved through the addition of content targeting health care providers to accompany information for private well owners. In partnership with the CUSRP Community Engagement Core (CEC), NJDEP, and New Jersey Department of Health, the RTC developed a clinic-based, health care provider outreach pilot program that offers free arsenic and lead testing to pediatric and obstetric patients who drink water from private wells in Hunterdon County. CUSRP Director Joseph Graziano, Ph.D., gave a talk for health care providers at the Hunterdon County Medical Center Grand Rounds in October 2016.

The RTC and CEC are collaborating with the Raritan Headwaters Association on research and community well testing programs. The RTC has also initiated collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Health Environmental Health Division and is advising on surveys of private well owners.

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