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CONTACT:
Dianne Quigley, Project Manager (508) 751-4615
Patricia George, Community Research Coordinator (775) 289-6931
CDC AWARDS GRANT FOR NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES ON
HEALTH IMPACTS OF NEVADA TEST SITE FALLOUT
The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a multi-year grant to the
Nuclear Risk Management for Native Communities Project. The project is a
collaborative effort between the Native American Community Advisory
Committee (CAC), staff representing nine Native American communities in
central Nevada, southern Utah and southeastern California, the Ely-Shoshone
Tribe, Ely, Nevada, with researchers from Clark University and the Childhood
Cancer Research Institute (CCRI), Worcester, Massachusetts.
The grant is for three years to conduct "Feasibility Analyses and
Community-based Research to Address Environmental Health Concerns of
Downwind Native Communities."
The grant has three specific aims for the first year.
1) Conducting feasibility analyses for: a) a thyroid exposure
assessment for four Native communities and; b) thyroid disease prevalence
for four Native communities. One of the most significant activities of this
proposed project is the carrying out of several feasibility analyses
utilizing GIS-mapping and spatial analyses. Four communities are targeted
for health research analyses in order to test the feasibility of conducting
these analyses in the remaining seven to ten Western Shoshone and Southern
Paiute communities. The project technical and community-based team will
collect and review existing data to assess the feasibility of constructing a
revised analysis for Native American exposures to nuclear fallout which will
lead to revised individual and community thyroid dose estimates for Ely,
Duckwater and Moapa reservation areas in Nevada and the Shivwits
reservation in Utah. If the thyroid dose estimates are feasible, this should
indicate feasibility for conducting estimates of doses to other organs.
Through both technical data-gathering (locating health records) and informal
community interviews in the first year, the project team will assess the
viability of identifying cases of thyroid disease in these Native American
communities. If records are adequate, feasibility analyses will be conducted
on thyroid disease prevalence in the targeted communities in the subsequent
years of the project. In addition, the project team will seek to locate and
identify other cases of radiation-related diseases for the specific
communities, primarily for providing an overall picture of potential
radiation health impacts for the community's information.
2) Training and coordination for the community-based and technical data
collection activities and the community-based infrastructure development in
order to conduct the feasibility analyses. The project team will organize
and set up a local data-base center in the city of Ely, NV for the
collection of local knowledge and technical data on nuclear risks. Resources
and training will be provided to community-based staff to carry out
research through informal community interviews for gathering local knowledge
on lifestyles, diet, subsistence, land use and health-related information in
the identified communities of Duckwater, Ely, Moapa and Shivwits for the
1950's and 1960's. A CAC of representative community members will be
convened twice a year for three-day planning and training meetings to work
with the technical and community-based staff in designing, overseeing and
evaluating the project goals.
3) Design and implement a community education program on the potential
health effects of fallout and the project's activities. The research team
will build on the previous work of the project in designing a curriculum on
fallout risks, implementing educational goals with a CAC and communities
they represent ensuring that community members have informed input into the
project's ongoing research and education goals. The project was founded in
1993 by the Western Shoshone National Council, the Childhood Cancer Research
Institute and the Citizen Alert, Reno, NV. It has been providing
community-based research, education and strategic-planning on the health
impacts of nuclear contamination to Native American communities.
Nuclear Risk Management For Native Communities
P.O. Box 222
Ely, NV 89301
Tel/Fax: (775) 289-6931
Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
doctrine of international copyright law.
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