NCT06315140

Assessing and Addressing Community Exposures to Environmental Contaminants

Building Food Sovereignty, Sustainability and Better Health in Environmentally-impacted Native Americans

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: NYU Langone Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to build on our equitable, eight-year Tribal-academic partnership with the Ramapough Nation of northern NJ to advance tradition-centered farming practices and management strategies supporting sustainable food systems to relieve local food insecurity and nutritional deficiency, prevent disease and promote health. Furthermore, assessing the extent of environmental contamination, individual toxicant burdens and micronutrient levels and health disorders in Ramapough Tribal members of both sexes as outlined in the following: * Collect in-person/online survey information on demographics, health and food intake, nutrition, food security, and psychosocial stressors, and perform core anthropometric measurements (i.e., height, weight, body mass index, body circumference and blood pressure) at enrollment on Tribal members to inform health promotion strategies and community actions. * Determine individual-level contaminant burdens and micronutrient concentrations (e.g., iron, calcium, folate, vitamins) in urine and blood from surveyed (sub-aim 1a) Ramapough Turtle Clan volunteers. * Test soil, plants and surface water where Turtle Clan residents live, recreate and attend church in Ringwood, NJ using a community-based, citizen scientist approach.

Conditions

• Environmental Exposure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nutrition	The intervention will build on the 11-year Tribal-academic partnership with the Ramapough Nation of northern NJ to advance tradition-centered farming practices and management strategies supporting sustainable food systems to relieve local food insecurity. Working with the Ramapough-leased Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal farm (growing produce/crops on clean soil) will provide the tribe with nutrition-rich foods and recipes for nutritious cooking. The interventions aims to return healthy soil on the farm allowing for healthy plant production.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-16
• Primary completion: 2027-04-01
• Completion: 2027-04-01
• First posted: 2024-03-18
• Last updated: 2026-01-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States