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N.H. public health gets $5 million in fed funds

By Staff | Aug 20, 2019

CONCORD — The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services is receiving a biomonitoring grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The five-year award provides $5,162,497 million to enhance the Public Health Laboratories’ Biomonitoring program. This grant will allow the laboratories to analyze lead poisoning interventions, human health impacts from flooding, Berlin area environment impacts, and changes in contamination levels after preventative interventions.

Biomonitoring is the direct measurement of environmental chemicals in people’s blood and urine, indicating the amount of chemical that actually enters the body from all environmental sources. The CDC grant will enhance the laboratories’ ability to determine whether residents have been exposed to certain contaminants, which will help identify at-risk population groups and assess the needs of those groups.

“To be one of only six states to receive this comprehensive grant is a confirmation of capabilities of our laboratorians to help people in the Granite State,” Public Health Laboratories Director Christine Bean said. “This grant allows the Biomonitoring program to continue our work in an effort to understand the relationship between human health and exposure to environmental contaminants. We thank the CDC for the opportunity.”

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