The Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination has an active research program. In addition to its seed grant program, CHEEC initiates and develops environmental health research projects and works cooperatively as co-investigators with University of Iowa and Iowa State University researchers, federal agency personnel, and state of Iowa environmental and health departments.

Current Research
Currently, CHEEC center personnel are working on the following as co-investigators and providing database management services:

• Exposure Assessment Method for Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
• Comprehensive Assessment of Rural Health in Iowa: the Carroll County Well Water Study
• Nitrates, Nitrites and Nitrosatable Drugs and the Risk for Selected Birth Defects
• SWRL Phase II

Cooperative Research
CHEEC developed a cooperative research program in 1999 that seeks to leverage research monies from university, state, and federal entities to conduct research in areas of mutual interest. The collaboration requires matching funds from participating entities.

The most recent cooperative project was The Iowa Beach Study, conducted in collaboration with Iowa Department of Natural Resources, University Hygienic Laboratory, and UI Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, UI College of Public Health (in-kind).

More information on the cooperative research program is available here.

Archived Research Projects
Descriptions and listings of past CHEEC research.