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EAST PALESTINE -- Participants are still being sought for a health study conducted by the University of Kentucky.
Erin Haynes, who serves as Principal Investigator of the East Palestine Train Derailment Health Research Program, visited Village Council in recent weeks to go over the program.
Led by the University of Kentucky with partners at the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University the study exists to answer the health and water questions the community has been asking since February 2023, the team said.
The study is built to follow participants over time to determine the long-term health effects of the train derailment and is federally funded through the National Institute of Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
"For this phase of research we are still actively enrolling participants. There is a survey to complete about your health and then a clinic visit which is now open as of last week," Community Liaison Misti Allison, who is working closely with the research team, said.
The study is open to those who lived in East Palestine or the surrounding area, including Western Pennsylvania, when the derailment occurred on Feb. 3, 2023 and are eight years old and up.
Also eligible are those who worked or volunteered during the derailment response or clean-up efforts, as well as those who lived in Cambridge, Ohio, or the surrounding area since 2023, and are eight years old and up.
More information about the program can be found online at https://research.uky.edu/environment/east-palestine-health-research.