Yale Receives Additional $10.7 Million for Largest Study Ever On How Genes and Environment Affect Children's Health | Media-Newswire.com

Yale Receives Additional $10.7 Million for Largest Study Ever On How Genes and Environment Affect Children's Health | Media-Newswire.com: "New Haven, Conn. — The Yale School of Public Health has received a $10.7 million grant to expand its participation in a national study that will follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to understand factors that contribute to their health and development. Last year, Yale was awarded $15 million to start the work in New Haven County. With this additional grant, mothers and children from Litchfield County, Connecticut, will be included in the project.

The study—believed to be the largest of its kind ever undertaken—is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The goal is to seek information that can be used to prevent and treat some of the nation’s most pressing health problems, including autism, birth defects, diabetes, heart disease and obesity. The study is funded by a special line item in the federal budget and overseen by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development."