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This past November, Elijah Davis attended the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association to share his latest research on climate change knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and vulnerabilities among family-based childcare homes (FCCH) in Illinois.

In his presentation, Elijah highlighted recent survey findings on climate attitudes. He found that, while climate change risks are among the most significant climate risks acknowledged by FCCH providers, the majority of FCCH providers in our survey did not think climate change was a risk to themselves or the children in their care. He also compared these results to his recent work adapting a Climate Vulnerability Index for the state in which he found that census tracts with FCCHs are more vulnerable to climate risks compared to other parts of the state.

This past August, Vinh Vo attended the joint meeting of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) and presented his ongoing work with the Diet, Air Pollution, and Health Study.

At the conference, Vinh presented his poster on the associations between the oxidative potential of indoor particulate matter and salivary biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress in school-aged children. His work is part of the Diet, Air Pollution, and Health study which investigates the potential for dietary factors to modify the adverse associations between indoor air pollutants and inflammation in children. The work presented at ISEE-ISES is part of Vinh’s master’s thesis project.

The Diet, Air Pollution, and Health (DAPH) study was funded by a seed grant from the University of Illinois Personalized Nutrition Initiative.