Mission Statement

The Center for Environmental Research and Community Health (CERCH) works to understand and reduce the risk of environmental threats to children's health, locally and globally.

We conduct cutting edge scientific research to help protect pregnant mothers and children from potentially harmful chemicals in the environment. CERCH is a world renowned research center in UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. We study environmental exposures and their impacts on pregnant women and children's health. Combined, our 200+ peer-reviewed scientific studies and extensive community engagement efforts have touched lives and influenced policies to reduce environmental exposures locally, statewide, nationally, and globally. Click here to sign up for CERCH's Newsletter. 

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LUCIR Study Featured by Union of Concerned Scientists: Reducing exposures to toxic chemicals in conventional cleaning products by switching to green cleaning
CDC
Dr. Kim Harley named to the California Sustainable Pest Management Work Group
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Dr. Kim Harley/ UC Berkeley
CERCH Youth Participatory Action Research Feature: Structural Racism & Air Pollution Injustices
UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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