ATSDR/HCHP - Hanford Community Health Project

Hanford Community Health Project (HCHP)

The Hanford Community Health Project (HCHP) is an outreach and education initiative sponsored by ATSDR.

The project seeks to provide educational information and materials about potential health risks to individuals who were exposed as young children to past releases of radioactive iodine (I-131) between 1944 and 1951 from the Hanford Nuclear reservation (more about the Hanford releases). The project's goal is to assist concerned individuals and their health care providers in making informed health care choices concerning these exposures.

Via this web site and other outreach efforts, the HCHP is working to make information and educational materials about health risks of exposure to I-131 available to concerned Hanford citizens. This web site makes available materials that have been developed by a variety of sources including ATSDR, the Hanford Health Information Network, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

On this web site you can read and print fact sheets and brochures about Hanford and how I-131 can affect the health of those who were exposed to Hanford releases of I-131, print out an order form to request materials be mailed to you, see other web sites that contain useful information about Hanford and I-131, see contact information for ATSDR and the HCHP team, and also join the HCHP mailing list so that you will be kept informed about the project.

HCHP Home | Educational Materials | More About the Hanford I-131 Releases
Other Resources | Join Project Mailing List | Contact

Questions? - Call the ATSDR Information Center toll-free at 1-888-422-8737 or e-mail gthomas@cdc.gov

This page updated October 9, 2002. Webmaster ATSDR-OpeaMail@cdc.gov