The HEAL Project is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), both of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc. (MCAN). For more information on this project, please see the HEAL project website.
Program Site: New Orleans, LA
Contract Organizations: New Orleans Dept. of Health; Tulane University Health Sciences Center; Rho, Inc. [contract made through The Constella Group, LLC]
Principal Investigators: Kevin U. Stephens, Sr., MD, JD, Director, City of New Orleans Department of Health; Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine; William Martin, II, MD, Associate Director, National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences; Herman Mitchell, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Rho, Inc.
The Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) Project is a randomized, prospective parallel group design for 450 children with asthma and is conducted by the Tulane University Health Sciences Center and the New Orleans Department of Health. Rho, Inc. is the Data Coordinating Center. The objectives of the study are: to evaluate effectiveness of asthma case management intervention (emphasizing environmental risk control) in a natural disaster setting; to characterize relationships between environmental allergens, exposures and asthma morbidity; to characterize asthma prevalence, living conditions, and stress among families of children (4-12 y.o.); and to collect and bank biospecimens to support other genetic and gene/environment studies.
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