by campus | Apr 9, 2020 | Enrichment Core F (Community Engagement), PROTECT Team
Dr. Carmen M. Vélez-Vega, co-director of the PROTECT Community Engagement Core, has been appointed to the EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC). The CHPAC consists of researchers, academics, healthcare providers, environmentalists, and members...
by campus | Nov 5, 2019 | Enrichment Core F (Community Engagement), PROTECT Events and Presentations, PROTECT Team
Dr. Vélez Vega (right) with Dr. Pietro Aparicio, President of the Latino Caucus of the APHA Dr. Carmen Vélez Vega, Leader of the PROTECT Community Engagement Core, is the 2019 recipient of the Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award, presented by the American...
by campus | Sep 11, 2019 | Enrichment Core F (Community Engagement), Project 1 (Targeted Epidemiology), PROTECT Events and Presentations, PROTECT Team, Research Core C (Human Subjects & Sampling)
Researchers and trainees from PROTECT attended and presented at the 31st annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE 2019). This year’s conference was held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from August 25th through 28th. A total of...
by campus | Aug 9, 2019 | Enrichment Core F (Community Engagement), PROTECT Team, PROTECT Trainees, Trainee Spotlight
Nancy Cardona is a trainee from University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus who worked under the mentorship of Dr. Carmen Velez-Vega within the Community Engagement Core from August 2015 until February 2019. While she was working with us, Nancy revised...
by campus | Jun 24, 2019 | Enrichment Core F (Community Engagement), News on Premature Birth, PROTECT Research, PROTECT Team, Research Core C (Human Subjects & Sampling)
Since PROTECT has started studying the environmental causes of higher levels of preterm birth in Puerto Rico preterm birth rates have dropped significantly; from 18% of all births in 2011 which was considered the highest in the world, to 11% by 2017.[1] However, this...
by campus | May 8, 2019 | Enrichment Core F (Community Engagement), PROTECT Events and Presentations, PROTECT Team
Director Dr. Carmen Velez Vega & Hector Torres Zayas Back in March of this year, CEC Director Dr. Carmen Velez Vega & Research Coordinator Hector Torres Zayas coordinated and lead a workshop titled, “Report Back Strategies for the Dissemination of Research...
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