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Navajo Birth Cohort Study

Helping Your Baby and Future

Generations To Grow in Beauty

If you are pregnant and concerned that uranium might affect your child’s health please consider participating in this important research study.

Call 1-877-545-6775 or 1-928-XXX-XXXX

for more information and how you can participate

A joint project of -

• DiNEH Project (University of New Mexico Community Environmental Health Program and Southwest Research and Information Center);

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry;

• Navajo Area Indian Health Service; and

• Navajo Nation Division of Health

Approved and monitored by

• University of New Mexico Human Research Review Committee – HRPO# 11-310 • Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board – NNR# 10.323

Funding from CDC/ATSDR: U01 TS000135 Principal Investigator – Johnnye Lewis Ph.D., D.A.B.T. Artwork by Sandy Ramone

Navajo Birth Cohort Study

Helping Your Baby and Future

_{Generations To Grow in Beauty}

UPDATED INFORMATION WILL BE IN THIS SECTION – ENROLLMENT DATES / OUTREACH MEETINGS / OR ANY OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Call 1-877-545-6775 or 1-928-XXX-XXXX

for more information and how you can participate

A joint project of -

• DiNEH Project (University of New Mexico Community Environmental Health Program and Southwest Research and Information Center);

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry;

• Navajo Area Indian Health Service; and

• Navajo Nation Division of Health

Approved and monitored by

• University of New Mexico Human Research Review Committee – HRPO#11-310 • Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board – NNR# 10.323

Funding from CDC/ATSDR: U01 TS000135 Principal Investigator – Johnnye Lewis Ph.D., D.A.B.T. Artwork by Sandy Ramone

Navajo Birth Cohort Study

^(NBCS)

• The primary goal of this study is to better understand the relationship between uranium exposures and birth outcomes and early developmental delays on the Navajo Nation

• Participants will be surveyed during their pregnancies and take part in four developmental assessments with their child in her first year.

• The study will provide broad public health benefits for Navajo communities, including ―

• early assessment and education on environmental, prenatal risks;

• service referral when develop- mental concerns are identified; and

^{• heightened awareness of impacts}

^{of environmental exposures among}

^{Navajo area health care providers}

• The study is funded by Congress at the request of the Navajo Nation and in response to concerns expressed by women about the health impacts of living near abandoned uranium mines.

Direct Benefits for Participants:

• The home environmental assessment will indicate if any serious levels of contamination are present, and if so, the family will be referred to the

appropriate agency for further environmental testing.

• Access to information on community- based infant services and programs, including WIC and First Things First.

• Children with developmental concerns will be referred to Growing In Beauty, Navajo Nation Early Intervention Program, for services.

Participants will be asked to:

• Complete surveys before birth and at 2-,

^{6-, 9- and 12-months after birth}

• Provide urine and blood samples and consent to a medical record review

• Consent to a home environmental

^{assessment and sampling}

• Consent to child's growth and developmental assessments, blood and urine collection, and home environmental sampling

The Navajo Birth Cohort Study (NBCS) will begin recruiting participants in XXXX

Who will be eligible?

Women between the ages of 14 and 45 years old who have lived on the Navajo Nation for 5 years, are pregnant, and will deliver at

 Chinle Comprehensive Health

^{Care Facility}

^{ Gallup Indian Medical Center}

^{ Northern Navajo Medical}

^{Center (Shiprock)}

^{ Tséhootsooí Medical Center}

^{(Ft. Defiance)}

^{ Tuba City Regional Health Care}

^Corporation

Navajo Birth Cohort Study

^(NBCS)

Helping Your Baby and Future Generations To Grow in Beauty

A collaborative study to better understand the relationship between uranium exposures and birth outcomes and early developmental delays on the Navajo Nation

Funding from CDC/ATSDR: U01 TS000135

UNM Human Research Review Committee: HRPO #: 11-310

Navajo Human Research Review Board: NNR# 10.323