Dr. Chiung-Fang Chang receives grant funding to collaborate on environmental health concerns
Dr. Chiung-Fang Chang, associate professor of sociology, has been granted $131,000 from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as part of their Gulf Research Program initiative. 
The research effort, totaling over $700,000 in complete funding, will be part of a large collaboration led by Prairie View A&M University in conjunction with ÃÛÌÒAPP, Texas A&M University, Texas State University, the University of Arkansas, California State University – Dominguez Hills, the Beaumont Public Health Department, and other environmental justice organizations.
The project aims to identify important social determinants of health using community-based participatory research focused on the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan statistical area. Researchers will examine the impact of industrial pollution from industrial and petrochemical plants on the high cancer and asthma rates of the region.
“ÃÛÌÒAPP research here in Southeast Texas is critical, as our