Childhood growth, home environment, and stress (PROGRESS) cohort
The Programming Research in Obesity, GRowth, Environment and Social Stress (PROGRESS) Cohort
This project follows children from pregnancy through adolescence to learn how home air pollution, metals, and social stress affect growth, breathing, and brain development.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (New York, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11516986 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
If you join PROGRESS, researchers will follow you from pregnancy into childhood and adolescence and collect home environmental samples, biological samples, and surveys about family life and stress. They use new methods like bioethnographies (detailed observations of daily life), passive samplers, and environmental sensors to measure air pollution and metal exposures in homes. The team also conducts standardized tests of thinking, lung function, and metabolism to link exposures with growth, asthma, and neurodevelopment. Data are shared with other child health groups to speed discoveries and guide ways to reduce harmful home exposures.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Pregnant people and their children (from birth through adolescence) living near the partner study sites, especially in homes with potential air pollution or other environmental exposures, are the ideal candidates.
Not a fit: People who are not pregnant, not the child of an enrolled participant, or whose health issues are unrelated to home environmental or social exposures are unlikely to receive direct benefit from participation.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this work could reveal specific home exposures that raise the risk of asthma, growth problems, or learning delays and point to ways families and communities can lower those risks.
How similar studies have performed: Other birth cohort studies have linked early-life pollution and metals to child health, and this project builds on that evidence while adding novel home-based sampling and ethnographic methods.
Where this research is happening
New York, United States
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — New York, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Rosa, Maria Jose — Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Study coordinator: Rosa, Maria Jose
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.