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Hudson College Launches New Center to Address Health Concerns in Young Children
Hudson College Launches New Center to Address Health Concerns in Young Children
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Hudson College Launches New Center to Address Health Concerns in Young Children

University of Oklahoma researchers from the Hudson College of Public Health launched the Children’s Environmental Health Center in the U.S. Southern Great Plains, a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to advancing research on children’s health and environmental exposures, following a year of preparation. 

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Conference Presentations

  • More to expect soon
  • Cai, C., & Horm, D. (2025). OK-AIR: Advancing Indoor-environment Research for Children in Oklahoma. Annual Regional Conference: Building Healthy Futures: Policies, Partnerships, and Pathways for Child Wellbeing, organized by American Mock World Health Organization, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA, November 8.
  • Horm, D., & Cai, C. (2025). OK-AIR: Advancing Indoor-environment Research for Children in Oklahoma. UMC El Paso’s 4th Annual Nursing Research & Quality Symposium, El Paso, TX, USA, October 24.
  • Cai, C., & Horm, D. (2025). OK-AIR: Advancing Indoor-environment Research for Children in Oklahoma. Region VI Head Start Association Southwestern Fall Conference, Dallas, TX, USA, October 23.
  • Cai, C., & Horm, D. (2025). Aerosol Hazards and Health: Understanding and Control in Public Health & Early Childhood Settings. Southern Plains Tribal Health Board (SPTHB) Virtual Training Summit, OK, USA, August 12.
  • Horm, D., & Cai, C. (2025). OK-AIR: Advancing Indoor-environment Research for Children in Oklahoma. For Kelley Smith from EPA Region 6, IAQ in Schools, Zoom, USA, July 31.
  • Horm, D., & Cai, C. (2025). OK-AIR: Advancing Indoor-environment Research for Children in Oklahoma. Children’s Environmental Health Symposium, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA, June 25-26.
  • Horm, D., & Cai, C. (2025). Air Quality Intervention in Head Start Classrooms. Kickoff and Network Event for the Children’s Environmental Health Center in the U.S. Southern Great Plains, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA, April 4.
  • Horm, D., & Cai, C. (2024). OK-AIR: Advancing Indoor-environment Research for Children in Oklahoma. 2024 Oklahoma Early Childhood Research Symposium, Oklahoma City, OK 73179, USA, September 23-24.
  • Cai, C., & Horm, D. (2024). OK-AIR: Advancing Indoor-environment Research for Children in Oklahoma. Native Renewable Energy Symposium, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, September 12-13.
  • Zhu, M., Kim, P., Akanji, B., Horm, D., Fuhrman, B., Sadhasivam, B., Stroh, O., Thomas, G., Peters, T., & Cai, C.* (2024). Characterize and Intervene the Indoor Air Quality in Early Childhood Education Settings to Reduce the School Absenteeism Caused by Infectious Diseases. Poster presentation at the Indoor Air 2024 Sustaining the Indoor Air Revolution: Raise Your Impact, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, July 7-11.
  • Horm, D., Craig, V. P., Cai, C., Fuhrman, B., Dericks, A., Farris, S., Ssentuuwa, R., Ghorbani, E., Zhu, M., Akanji., B., & Kim, P. (2024). Indoor Air Quality: A Literature Review and RCT Study in Early Head Start/Head Start. Poster presentation at the National Research Conference on Early Childhood 2024 (NRCEC 2024), Arlington, VA. June 24-26.
  • Zhu, M., Akanji, B., Horm, D., Fuhrman, B., Sadhasivam, B., Stroh, O., Thomas, G., Peters, T., Xu, C., & Cai, C.* (2024). Evaluating Interventions for Indoor Air Quality and Teachers’ Absenteeism in Winter: A Randomized Controlled Experiment in Early Childhood Education Centers. Poster presentation at the American Industrial Hygiene Connect 2024 (AIHA Connect 2024), Columbus, OH. May 20-22.
  • Cai, C., Horm, D., & Li, D. (2024). Children’s Environmental Health Center in U.S. Southern Great Plains. 2024 Cumulative Impacts Research Grantee Workshop, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), North Carolina, USA, May 14-16.
  • Joseph, M., & Cai, C.* (2024). Particle Deposition in 3D Printed Human Lung Model Under Realistic Physiological Conditions. Poster presentation at the Honors College FYRE Poster Symposium, Norman, OK. May 1. 

Publications

  • More to expect soon
  • Cai, C., Horm, D., Fuhrman, B., Van Pay, C. K., Zhu, M., Shelton, K., ... & Xu, C. (2026). OK-AIR study protocol: a longitudinal cluster-randomised 2× 2 factorial trial of portable air purification and upper-room UVGI on sick-related absences, indoor air quality, environmental pathogens and social-emotional development in early care and education classrooms (birth-5 years). medRxiv, 2026-03.
  • Liu, S., Yang, A., Horm, D., Zhu, M., & Cai, C. (2026). Developing an Early Childhood Environmental Health Vulnerability Index to Assess Cumulative Health Impacts Across Contiguous US. medRxiv, 2026-03.

Clinic Study Registry

  • OK-AIR: Testing classroom air cleaners and upper-room UV air treatment to improve indoor air quality and reduce sick-related absences in Oklahoma early care and education (ECE) schools, ISRCTN: ISRCTN78764448. DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN78764448