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NIEHS announces $10 million, five-year research program for East Palestine health tracking; investigators outline tests, enrollment and data protections
Summary
NIH/NIEHS and university partners said they will spend $10 million over five years on community-engaged health research in and around East Palestine Village, including blood and hair biomonitoring, spirometry, FibroScan liver ultrasound and state-level registry work; investigators emphasized confidentiality and plans to return results to participants.
NIEHS officials and lead university investigators on Monday detailed a $10 million, five-year, community-engaged research program to track health outcomes following the 2023 East Palestine derailment.
Dr. Kyle Walsh, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, said NIEHS used an accelerated funding mechanism to move money quickly to “get boots on the ground” and support local research. "There has been a $10,000,000 commitment to fund research in, in and around East Palestine," Walsh said.
Lead principal investigator Dr. Erin Haines of the University of Kentucky described the health-tracking study, which currently follows about 400 participants. The team will collect survey responses and biologic samples to monitor respiratory, cardiovascular,…
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