The mission of the Children's Environmental Health Center is to protect children against environmental threats to health. The CEHC accomplishes this by guiding, supporting, and building the programs of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

The CEHC supports research, education, and training in preventive medicine, epidemiology and children's environmental health. The CEHC is supported by state and federal grant funding as well as by philanthropic and community donations.

Our Goals:

• To support scientific research to discover the preventable environmental causes of disease in children - autism, asthma, obesity and childhood cancer.
• To provide accessible scientific information to parents, caregivers and the general public empowering them to make better personal choices to protect our children.
• To communicate widely and credibly to policy makers the health risks to children and adults from environmental threats.
• To educate the next generation of medical students, pediatricians, obstetricians and other practicing physicians to become the next generation of leaders in environmental pediatrics and preventive medicine.
• To define and control the environmental exposures that harm the health of children in East Harlem.

Donations to the CEHC support research programs seeking the environmental causes of:

• Learning disabilities (Autism)
• Asthma
• Obesity/Diabetes
• Childhood Cancer