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Current Projects
Cottonwood, Arizona
Step 1: Participate in training
Past Projects
Prevalence of H. pylori, Arsenic and Associated Health Outcomes in the Arizona-Mexico Border (2021 - 2023)
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This project aims to improve our understanding of potential exposures to Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), a carcinogenic microorganism associated with gastric cancer, as well as arsenic, associated with diabetes and obesity, to reduce health disparities in the Arizona-Mexico border communities. This work is funded by the University of Arizona’s Hispanic Serving Institution Faculty Seed Grant Program and is being led in partnership by Dr. Aminata Kilungo (Assistant Professor of Practice, Community, Environment & Policy, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health) and Dr. Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta (Associate Professor, Environmental Science, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences).
Arica, Chile (2020-2023)
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The University of Arizona Gardenroots is a partner and member of the “Our Soil” project supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1922257, the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Núcleo Milenio de Investigación en Energía y Sociedad (NUMIES), and Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo under grant No. REDES180096. We are working together in Troy, NY, USA and Arica, Chile to build healthy relationships between people and soil. This means discovering the ways that we rely on soils in our communities, as well as detecting contaminants - like lead and arsenic - that sometimes make soil hazardous. We want to build safer soils in the places where we live, work, and play. For more information, please visit: https://oursoil.wp.rpi.edu.
CHIME Gold Country, CA (2019 - 2021)
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The study titled “Breast Cancer Risks from California's Gold Mining Legacy,” a continuation of the ongoing Community Health Impacts of Mining Exposure (CHIME) project, is sponsored by the California Breast Cancer Research Program. Together, researchers from Sierra Streams Institute, University of California San Francisco and University of Arizona are working together to determine whether: (1) breast cancer incidence is higher in closer proximity to mine sites, and (2) arsenic and cadmium exposures are associated with the consumption of local foods, gardening, and trail use in areas with mining residue.
Superior, AZ (2018 - 2022)
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Nevada County, CA (2017 - 2019)
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Ramírez-Andreotta is part of a team that was awarded: “Dirt Alert: legacy mining contaminant impacts in preschools” by the California Breast Cancer Research Program. This grant will expand previous work by project partners Cancer Prevention Institute of California and Sierra Streams Institute by assessing whether young children, who represent a particularly important window of vulnerability for breast cancer, are being exposed to the metals of concern in preschool gardens, through incidental soil ingestion, inhalation of metal-containing dust, and consumption of plants grown in local gardens.
Apache County, AZ (2015- 2016)
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Cochise County, AZ (2015- 2016)
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Greenlee County, AZ (2015- 2016)
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Washington County, PA (2015-2016)
Step 4: Results
Currently, Dr. Ramirez-Andreotta and the Southwest Pennslyvania Environmental Health Project are working together to develop the individual results packet for each participating household.
Yavapai County, AZ (2010-2012)
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