Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
1540 Alcazar Street
Suite 236
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9013

 CEHC Overview

Center Director: Henry Gong Jr., M.D.
Co-Director: John Peters, M.D.

Background

Pediatric pulmonary disease is a major clinical and public health problem in which environmental factors can play an important causative role. Host susceptibility to various environmental exposures is also highly variable. The Children's Environmental Health Center was established to focus on these fundamental issues by marshalling the multidisciplinary talents of both USC and UCLA faculty to conduct research and disseminate practical information in an effort to improve the respiratory health of our children.

Center Objectives

  • Conduct research leading to the identification and solution of respiratory environmental health problems in children. 
  • Focus more attention on the respiratory environmental health problems in children.
  • Expand and create more multidisciplinary interactions of clinical and basic investigators and grassroots leaders in the community.
  • Support and coordinate an interactive group of Center-based research projects, core service facilities, and community leaders.
  • Attract new investigators into children's environmental health research with a New Scientist Program.
  • Create more opportunities for learning about and involvement in respiratory environmental health for faculty, medical students, residents, graduate students, and fellows.
  • Develop new community outreach activities for educating the public and health care practitioners about children's respiratory health problems caused or exacerbated by environmental exposures.
  • Create a regional and national resource in children's respiratory environmental health research.

Administrative core

To view the Center's organization chart, click here.