Increase In Number of Centers Recruiting Volunteers, Collecting
Data October 3, 2008 The National Institutes of Health announced
today that its comprehensive study to examine the effect of
genes and the environment on children’s health had entered the
next phase of operations. At a briefing on the latest
developments in the National Children’s Study, NIH officials
named the study centers funded for 2008. The study centers are
the research institutions that will recruit volunteers for the
study. Study centers will recruit from study locations--counties
and other geographic demarcations preselected by study
scientists to be representative of the United States. The large
size of the study requires that it be carried out in stages.
Today, NIH officials named the 27 study centers that will be
funded in 2008, which will manage 39 locations. That brings the
total of new and existing study centers to 36, covering a total
of 72 study locations. When it is fully operational, the study
is expected to have approximately