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CHAMACOS is a Community-University partnership that includes members of the
Salinas Valley community and academic, state, and federal science agencies.
The research is conducted in partnership with several organizations in the Salinas
Valley, including the South County Outreach Effort (SCORE), Clínica de Salud del
Valle Salinas, Natividad Medical Center, and the Monterey County Health Department.
California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) and the Grower Shipper Association are also
participating in the intervention study, which recently received additional funding
from NIEHS.
Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas (CSVS)
Natividad Medical Center
South County Outreach Effort (SCORE)
Monterey County Health Department
California Rural Legal Assistance Program (CRLA)
Grower-Shipper Association of Central California
Other contributing institutions include
Children's Hospital Oakland Research
Institute,
California Department of Health Services,
California Environmental Protection Agency,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Stanford University,
US EPA Region IX,
Battelle Memorial Laboratory,
US EPA National Exposure Research
Laboratory in Research Triangle Park, NC, and University of
Washington.
COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD
Fernando Armenta - District 1 Monterey County Board of Supervisors
John Baillie - Central Coast Grower Shipper Association
Ofelia Flores - Intervention Farmworker Council Representative
Eric Lauritzen - Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner
Mike Meuter, JD - California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA)
Robert Perkins - Monterey County Farm Bureau
Simon Salinas - State of California Assemblymember, 28th District
John Snider - Monterey County Health Department, Division of Health Promotion
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Michael Alavanja, DrPH, of the National Cancer Institute,
is Principal Investigator of The Agricultural Health
Study.
John Balmes, MD, of the University of
California San Francisco, is Director of the Lung Biology Center.
David Bellinger, Ph.D., of Harvard
University, is a Developmental Psychologist at Children's Hospital
Boston.
David Eastmond, Ph.D., of the University of
California, Irvine, is a Professor of Cell Biology, a toxicologist in
the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, as well as the
President of the Environmental Mutagen Society.
Richard Fenske, Ph.D. is a Professor in the
School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, University of
Washington.
Raymond Neutra, MD, MPH, of the California
Department of Health Services, is chief of the Division of
Environmental and Occupational Disease Control.
Mary O'Rourke, Ph.D. is a Professor in the
Department of Community and Environmental Health, University of
Arizona.
Jay Schreider, Ph.D. is a toxicologist of
the State Department of Public Regulation.
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