Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH)
CERCH is a world leader in researching and highighting key aspects of environmental health risks, especially as they impact pregnant women and their children. To accomplish this mission, CERCH investigates exposures to future parents and children and evaluate long term effects on child health, behavior, and development. We work to help key stakeholders translate our research findings into sustainable strategies to reduce environment-related childhood disease, directly involving local communities in the process. CERCH prioritizes engaging communities to inform study design, implementation, and dissemination and helping to identify key solutions to pressing environmental issues.
Currently CERCH is investigating drinking water and birth outcomes with attention to drinking water data involving nitrates and arsenic.
CERCH plans to expand research into:
-Nitrates in Salinas Valley water
-Use of produced water in agriculture
-Pharmaceuticals in potable or irrigation water from recycled wastewater
Contact Information: abradman@berkeley.edu
Point Person: Asa Bradman
Course Title: Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH)
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