Environmental Health Effects of WTC

University Research

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), set aside supplemental funding to assist scientists and educators with community outreach and education, exposure assessment research, epidemiological studies, and worker training activities. All of these programs aim to increase awareness of the potential environmental health effects resulting from the WTC tragedy.


The Caspary Research Institute of The Animal Medical Center

Assessment of Injuries and Illness in Search and Rescue Dogs Associated with World Trace Center Relief Efforts
(Principal Investigator: Philip R. Fox)

Community outreach and education program
(Principal Investigator: Audrey R. Gotsch)

Studying exposure patterns of contaminants released from the WTC fire and collapse (Monitoring)
(Principal Investigator: Panos Georgopoulos, in collaboration with the US Environmental Protection Agency)

Analysis of indoor settled dust and smoke
(Principal Investigator: Paul J. Lioy)
Link to WTC presentation

Psychological consequences following WTC
(Principal Investigator: Howard M. Kipen)

Reproductive effects of WTC
(Principal Investigator: George H. Lambert, in collaboration with the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services and the New York Department of Health)

Assessing fears and concerns
(Principal Investigator: Michael A. Gallo)

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Long-term effects of clean-up at the WTC disaster site
Principal Investigator: John D. Groopman

Registry, Health Assessment and Monitoring
(Principal Investigator: Alison Geyh)

Outreach
(Principal Investigator: Alison Geyh)

Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
World Trade Center Supplement
Principal Investigator: Regina M. Santella

Exposure assessment: Chemical-based assessments of WTC emissions, air and sediments.
(Principal Investigator: Steven Chillrud, located at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University)

Health effects
(Principal Investigator: Frederica Perera)

WTC-ITEA database
(Principal Investigator: Steven Chillrud, located at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University)

Public dissemination of database: COEP
(Principal Investigator: Peggy Shepard)

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The Mount Sinai Superfund Basic Research Program
Principal Investigator: Philip J. Landrigan

Exposure assessment of WTC emissions using imaging spectroscopy and spatial analysis
(Principal Investigators: Steven Chillrud and Christopher Small, both at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University)

Outreach to children and families
(Principal Investigator: Joel Forman)

Clinical & epidemiological studies of ironworkers
(Principal Investigator: Stephen Levin)

Epidemiologic study of pregnant women & children
(Principal Investigator: Gertrud Berkowitz)

New York University School of Medicine
Environmental Health Issues Related to WTC Disaster
Principal Investigator: Lung Chi Chen

Exposure assessment
(Principal Investigator: Morton Lippman)

Toxicity assessment
(Principal Investigator: Lung Chi Cheng)

Community outreach program
(Principal Investigator: George Thurston)

WTC Resident Respiratory Health Study
(Principal Investigator: Joan Reibman, in collaboration with New York University, New York State Department of Health and Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies)

WTC resident respiratory impact study:
Physiologic characterization of residents with respiratory complaints
(Principal Investigator: Joan Reibman)

NYC firefighters study
(Principal Investigator: William Rom)

University of Pennsylvania

Caring for the WTC and Pentagon Rescuers Post 9/11
(Principal Investigators: Cindy Otto, School of Veterinary Medicine and Melissa Hunt, School of Arts and Sciences)

This website is made possible through the National Environmental Health Sciences Institute (NIEHS), Grant No. ES05022-15S1. It is administered by the Community Outreach and Education Program (COEP), an outreach component of the NIEHS Center of Excellence housed at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), in Piscataway, New Jersey, and the UMDNJ-School of Public Health.

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