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ASP3IRE Children's Environmental Health Center
Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families
College of Public Health and Human Sciences
OSU Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children & Families

ASP3IRE Newsletter

Welcome! Please enjoy the latest news and updates from our center!
 
Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence (CUE) Showcase
May 18, 2023

One of ASP3IRE’s missions is to mentor and engage next generation researchers in Children’s Environmental Health. So, we were thrilled when Avé and Maeve joined us through the OSU URSA Engage Program. Over a 15-week period they developed their own research questions, conducted their research, and presented their work at the Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence (CUE) Showcase in May. Their hard work really paid off!
Avé Gray
Modifying the OHA Lead Screening Questionnaire to Assess Parental Risk Perception of Childhood Lead Exposure
Maeve Sievertsen
Pediatric Mental Health & Wildfire Smoke: A Systematic Review of
Literature

ASP3IRE Center Co-Director Presentation
June 5, 2023

 
ASP3IRE Center Co-Directors, Megan McClelland and Molly Kile presented: Accelerating Research Translation for Children's Environmental Health in Oregon as part of the NYU Collaborative Center in Children's Environmental Health Research and Translation Catalyst Seminar Series.

Is It Safe for Athletes to Practice Outdoors During Wildfire Events?

 
Sports practice and athletic summer camps are a great way to stay active and healthy. Athletes build skills, form friendships, and learn about team spirit. But during wildfire events the air outside can become smokey and harmful to breathe, especially for those who are active, breathing harder and taking in more air.
So how do you know when it's safe for athletes to practice outdoors?
Get a copy of our Safeguarding Athletes from Wildfire Smoke flyer! The flyer gives you the three (3) easy steps for knowing when it's safe for athletes to practice outdoors! 
June is National Healthy Homes Month!
 
This June let's celebrate National Healthy Homes Month and learn how to create safe and healthy environments for kids. Here are a few easy steps to get started:
1) Improve indoor air quality by ventilating with clean outdoor air when possible. If outdoor air quality is unhealthy, like in the event of wildfire smoke, make sure to close windows and vents and use high-effieciency air filters in your HVAC system or portable air cleaner to capture airborne particles. 
2) Choose Safer Choice household cleaning products that meet the U.S. EPA Safer Product Standards. 
3) Test your home for Radon: Radon is a naturally occurring, odorless, colorless gas that can enter homes through floor gaps and foundation cracks. Long-term exposure to high levels of radon can increase the risk of lung cancer. 
Data Science Workshop

ASP3IRE Data Science Workshop!

Images from social media, smartphones, and Google Street View contain large amounts of information about the world we live in and how our environment can influence health. The ASP3IRE Center is developing tools called deep learning models to extract this information. Some of the information we’re extracting from images include pedestrian and vehicle behavior near crosswalks, as well as what types of and how much nature is available and visible across Oregon neighborhoods and urban centers. We believe deep learning models should be available to all Oregon public health researchers and practitioners.

We are planning a free workshop designed to teach participants how to run popular deep learning models for collecting information from images. Participants will analyze images and interpret the results to answer important public health questions.
 
To help us develop a great workshop, please take 2-minutes to complete the survey below.
 
Data Science Workshop Survey 
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Oregon State University’s Advancing Science, Practice, Programming and Policy in Research Translation for Children's Environmental Health (ASP3IRE) Center is proud to be one of six centers in the United States funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to develop strategies to translate key children’s environmental health research findings to relevant stakeholders.

We are a dedicated, cross-disciplinary team working together to improve children’s health and wellbeing. Our efforts focus on accelerating the adoption of evidence-informed policies, programs, and practices that can reduce harmful environmental exposures where children live, learn, and play.
 
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Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children & Families
2631 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone: 541-737-1387






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