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Center The Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention (Arkansas Center) was established in 1997. Our center is a collaborative effort of the faculty and personnel from the Arkansas Reproductive Health Monitoring System (ARHMS), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Arkansas Children's Hospital, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, and the Arkansas Department of Health. The State of Arkansas provides a unique setting for our center. The population of Arkansas is approximately 2.8 million consisting of a large minority population. Approximately 25% of the state's birth population is African-American. Hispanics and Asians comprise a small but rapidly growing segment of the state's population. The state can boast of a centrally located specialized pediatric care health facility with satellite clinics throughout the state. The Arkansas Center is one of the eight Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Centers for Birth Defects Research and Prevention (CBDRP). The other CDC CBDRPs are located in California, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and Utah. In 1996, the CDC established the CBDPRs at the request of the U.S. Congress to help reduce birth defects in our nation.
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