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| GuLF Study | |
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 Workers carry an oil containment boom, Venice, Louisiana, May 2010 | |
| Name of study | Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study[1] |
| Initiated by | United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), June 2010 |
| Conducted by | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) |
| Launched | September 2010[2] |
| Principal investigator | Dale Sandler, chief of epidemiology, Division of Intramural Research, NIEHS |
| Staff scientist | Richard Kwok, Chronic Disease Epidemiology Group |
| Participants | 55,000 clean-up workers |
The GuLF Study, or Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study, is a five-year research project examining the human-health consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010.[1] The spill followed an explosion on a drilling rig leased by BP, the British oil company, and led to the release of over four million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, 48 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the United States.[3]
The study was set up in June that year by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It is being conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, and aims to recruit 55,000 of the 150,000 workers who volunteered or were employed to help clean up the spill. It is led by Dale Sandler, head of the NIEHS's epidemiology branch.[4]
- ^ a b "GuLF Study" (PDF). National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. September 9, 2012.
- ^ "NIH to launch Gulf oil spill health study". National Institutes of Health. September 7, 2010.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
UnifiedCommandwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Charles W. Schmidt, "Study to Examine Health Effects in "Deepwater Horizon" Oil Spill Cleanup workers", Environmental Health Perspectives, 119(5), May 2011.