State Biomonitoring Grants

New York State Department of Health

For fiscal year 2009, the New York State Department of Health received $1,000,000.

The New York State Department of Health set forth the following goals to build or expand its biomonitoring program:

• Expanding the range of environmental chemicals that were measured in the 2004 New York City Community Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (CHANES);
• Assessing exposure to depleted uranium (DU) in a population of upstate New York residents and in former workers of National Lead Industries, Colonie, Albany County, New York; and
• Assessing exposure to methyl mercury among two Chinese communities in New York State.

Contacts

Kenneth Aldous, PhD
Program Director
Wadsworth Center/NYS Department of Health
Empire State Plaza
P.O. Box 509
Albany, NY 12201
518-474-7161
aldous@wadsworth.org

Kristin Dortch, MS
CDC Project Officer
770-488-0346
KDortch@cdc.gov