Department Research Topics

Blueprint for Controlling Lead and Silica Hazards

Blueprint is a joint research project of the Mount Sinai Construction Hygiene and Ergonomics Program (CHEP), and Hunter College, Urban Public Health Program. The project is aimed at designing and evaluating practical guides for protecting workers from lead and silica at construction sites. Blueprint Guides contain best practices for managing the use of engineering controls, safe work practices, respirators, and safety and tool box meetings. The Guides should be useful for construction managers, engineers, and union representatives who are involved with work site health and safety. Blueprint is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) through the Center to Protect Workers Rights (CPWR).

Bone Lead X-Ray Fluorescence Laboratory

The Bone Lead X-Ray Fluorescence Laboratory is one of the country's leading centers for a novel technique for measuring long-term lead exposure.

Health and Environmental Literacy Initiative

Christina Zarcadoolas, Ph.D., Director
The goal of The Health And Environmental Literacy Initiative is to contribute to the understanding the mechanisms of health and environmental literacy, and create innovative programs to advance these types of literacies in a range of publics.

NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program

The goal of this collaborative multidisciplinary program project supported through the NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program is to identify, characterize, and prevent human disease that may be caused by exposures to hazardous materials in the environment of New York City.

NIEHS WTC Research Supplement

The Mount Sinai Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research

This multidisciplinary enterprise is funded jointly by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The goals are to identify, elucidate, and prevent impairments of neurological and behavioral functions in urban children that result from exposure to pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), lead, and other developmental toxins in the inner-city environment. The Center will sustain a highly integrated multidepartmental program that will link epidemiological and basic biological research to community-based prevention efforts in East Harlem, New York City. The Center also administers a strong program in East Harlem for the prevention of childhood asthma.

The New York Children’s Environmental Health Study

To gain further understanding of the impact of environmental toxins on children's health, the Department has embarked upon a prospective, multiyear study of a multiracial cohort of children born in The Mount Sinai Hospital - The New York Children's Environmental Health Study. This study, a joint venture with the Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, is a pediatric analog of the Framingham Heart Study. It is supported by a grant from The New York Community Trust.