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...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) announced they will jointly award the Harvard School of Public Health $7.8 million over the next five years to examine the effects of toxic mixed metals on children last week...
...initiative will establish the Center for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research and is the product of the largest environmental research grant ever awarded by the EPA in New England, according to an EPA press release...
...other centers across the country received similar funding, but Harvard was the only new project to be funded in a competitive process, said EPA Environmental Research Program Manager Nigel Fields, who is the project officer for the planned children’s center...
Fields said the EPA and NIEHS began to jointly fund children’s research centers in 1998. The goal of these centers is to address pressing local problems and also to create a national network of doctors and researchers who can communicate about environmental impacts on children, Fields said...
Fields said that the EPA was attracted by the project that looked at the effects of toxic mixed metals...