Ghana children's air pollution and health cohort
The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) Cohort
This project organizes and shares health and air pollution information from children in Ghana so researchers can learn how household air pollution affects child lung and heart health.
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-11359607 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
If your child took part in the GRAPHS cohort, this project improves how their health and exposure information is stored and shared with qualified researchers. The team links measurements of household air pollution to clinical data collected at birth and during childhood, including respiratory measures, blood pressure, and biological markers. They will clean and standardize the data, create secure access procedures, and make de-identified datasets available for approved studies. The effort aims to enable more analyses that could identify how early-life air pollution impacts long-term health.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal participants are families with children who were enrolled in the original GRAPHS birth and early-childhood cohort in Ghana or children living in homes with household air pollution exposure in similar settings.
Not a fit: People without household air pollution exposure or those living outside the ages and settings represented in the cohort are unlikely to see direct benefits from this specific project.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this could speed research that leads to better ways to prevent or reduce air-pollution–related lung and heart problems in children.
How similar studies have performed: Previous cohort research has linked household air pollution to respiratory and cardiovascular harms, but long-term, shared datasets from low-resource settings like this cohort are less common.
Where this research is happening
New York, United States
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — New York, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Lee, Alison G — Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Study coordinator: Lee, Alison G
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.