CSUSM gets asthma research grant
By: North County Times
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
SAN MARCOS ---- A three-year, $420,000 grant to study asthma has been given to the National Latino Research Center at Cal State San Marcos.
The grant is a renewal of previous funding that the research center began receiving in 2002 from the California Endowment for Community Action to Fight Asthma. This group has also given grant money to groups fighting asthma in Los Angeles, San Diego, Imperial and Kern counties.
One in 10 California children suffers from asthma, which affects nearly 1.2 million children in the state and costs $480 million per year in hospital stays.
The research center will provide peer-to-peer technical assistance, regional training, policy development and networking opportunities in the fight against asthma.
The grant money will also be used for advocacy, outreach, education and grassroots interventions in the following areas:
-- Improving air quality at schools, both indoors and outdoors.
-- Reducing diesel exhaust emissions, especially from trucks, buses, ships and trains.
-- Fighting household mold and pests that reduce air quality.
For details, call Dr. Arcela Nunez-Alvarez at (760) 750-3503 or send e-mail to anunez@csusm.edu.
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