Email this pageStrong Children's Research Center
Seychelles Child Development Study
Study Objectives
The Seychelles Child Development Study (SCDS) is a research project involving the Ministries of Health and Education in Seychelles, the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, and the University of Rochester in the United States. The study began in the mid-1980s with two main objectives:
- To study child development in the Republic of Seychelles
- To study factors, such as diet, that may modulate associations between mercury exposure and child development
- To study effects of prenatal and postnatal mercury exposure
- To study exposure to organic and inorganic mercury
- To study factors that modulate associations between mercury exposure and child development
- To study the relation between mercury exposure and disabilities such as Autism
More Information
- What have been the main findings of the SCDS?
- Why are we studying children’s development?
- Why are we studying mercury?
- Why is the study taking place in the Republic of Seychelles?
- Our scientic approach
Seychelles Research
Developmental Disabilities