Recruitment Materials

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

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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

Participants will be asked to:

Navajo Birth Cohort Study
(NBCS)

• Complete surveys before birth and at 2-,
6-, 9- and 12-months after birth

• The primary goal of this study is to
determine whether exposure to
uranium wastes affects birth outcomes
and child development on the Navajo
Nation.

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

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

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

• The study will provide broad public
health benefits for Navajo communities,
including ―
• early assessment and education on
environmental, prenatal risks;
• service referral when developmental 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.

• Consent to a home environmental
assessment and sampling

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 communitybased 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.

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

Who will be eligible?

For information about the
study, please call us at
1-877-545-6775

The Navajo Birth Cohort Study
(NBCS) will begin recruiting
participants in May 2012

Navajo Birth Cohort Study
(NBCS)
Helping Your Baby and
Future Generations
To Grow in Beauty

A collaborative study to determine
if uranium exposures affect birth
outcomes and child development
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