Research Studies
East Palestine Train Derailment Health Research Program
Community driven research for long-term health
The East Palestine Train Derailment Health Research Program is a team of researchers from the University of Kentucky, University of Pittsburgh, and Yale University. The goal of the program is to assess the long-term health of individuals and families and identify the pathway of chemicals from derailment into local water sources. The project is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Core.
On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing hazardous chemicals into the air, soil, and waterways. Several of the derailed cars contained substances such as vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EGBE), ethylhexyl acrylate, isobutylene, and benzene residue. [US EPA].
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Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Health Assessment
This study investigates how pollution events impact the health of Tribal communities. Potential actions and public health interventions are identified to help prevent future health problems and save lives, ensuring community input helps shape these solutions.
UK-CARES
Addressing the environmental health research needs of Appalachia
The University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES) is a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Core Center to enhance research capacity focused on major environmental health impacts to air and water quality that have been implicated in environmentally induced disease.
The Center provides advanced infrastructure and leading expertise, dedicated career development and mentorship, and community-engaged interactions to facilitate innovative discovery and new understandings of environmental factors in disease initiation, progression, and outcomes and their community impacts.