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Special Issue: Break the Cycle – 16th Annual Program

Edited by I Leslie Rubin, Abby Mutic, Claire D Coles, Victoria Green, Rebecca Philipsborn, Melissa Gittinger, Nathan Mutic, Wayne Garfinkel, Henry Falk, Benjamin A Gitterman, and Joav Merrick

EDITORIAL

Intersection of poverty, race and child health in the time of COVID-19: 16th Annual Break the Cycle of children’s environmental health disparities program and student projects
I Leslie Rubin, Abby Mutic, Claire D Coles, Victoria Green, Rebecca Philipsborn, Melissa Gittinger, Nathan Mutic, Wayne Garfinkel, Henry Falk, Benjamin A Gitterman, and Joav Merrick

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

An examination of the prevalence of COVID-19 in the Texas Juvenile Justice System
Rachel J Slover and Rebecca Fry

Six month outcomes of malnourished children enrolled in the nutritional therapeutic program in a peri-urban, low-income settlement in the Western Cape, South Africa
Suzanne Kerswill, Etienne Nel, and Thandi Wessels

Does early life phthalate exposure mediate racial disparities in children’s cognitive abilities?
Marisa A Patti, Melissa Eliot, Nan Li, Kimberly Yolton, Bruce P Lanphear, Aimin Chen, and Joseph M Braun

Phthalate exposure in children: Assessing knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in families with low socioeconomic status
Rachana Charla, David Collier, Melissa Johnson, Brittany Meier, Andrew Binder, and Katlyn May

Comparison of neighborhood deprivation index and food desert status as environmental predictors of early childhood obesity
Shannon C Conrey, Allison R Burrell, Cole Brokamp, Rachel M Burke, Sarah C Couch, Liang Niu, Claire P Mattison, Daniel C Payne, Mary A Staat, and Ardythe L Morrow

Investigating equitable qccess to greenspace during the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for children’s mental health in Durham, North Carolina
Sharmi Amin, Kate Hoffman, Catherine Kastleman, and Heather M Stapleton

Neighborhood quality and positive health indicators among urban adolescents
Han N Oo, Miranda Spratlen, Courtney K Blackwell, Teresa Durham, Jia Guo, MS, Lori Hoepner, Diurka Diaz, Gladys Badia, Shuang Wang, and Julie B Herbstman

A grief group for today’s teens: Using human-centered design to develop an evidence-based intervention for teens that have lost a parent
Julia Chavez, Jessica Cheng, Amelie Liu, Alexis Hansen, Jesse Boring, Irwin Sandler, and Dana Suskind