Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health
Community Partner(s): Multiple CBOs in the City of Somerville and Boston Chinatown
Demographics: Diverse and representative of the near highway neighborhoods in which we work
School or College: College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
Campus Affiliation: UConn Health
Massachusetts
Program Description
CAFEH is a series of CBPR and CEnR studies and projects investigating the effects of traffic related ultrafine particle pollution on health, primarily cardiovascular health in older adults, and developing and testing individual and community level interventions to reduce exposure and improve health.
traffic-related air pollution community participation cardiovascular health interventions