Center for Transformative Community-Driven Research to Prevent Obesity-related Cancer.
Project Overview
The Center -- supported by the NIH/NCI -- seeks to reduce cancer risk, and ultimately improve cancer outcomes for communities experiencing persistent poverty. This project involves a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of evaluation of the effects of a nutrition education program plus weekly food delivery program on the health of elementary school aged children.
Children will have their HgA1c and Carotenoid content measured at the start of the school day and at the end of the school day. They will be compared with a cohort of children from schools that did not implement this program.
The Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health is part of the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health