HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Residents pre-enrolled in the “Red Hill Registry” project were invited to a virtual town hall over the weekend.
The “Red Hill Registry” project is set to launch formal enrollment mid-2025 and is seeking community members impacted by the jet fuel spillage that occurred at Red Hill on Oʻahu back in 2021
“I want to emphasize that a registry is about people, it’s about people,” said University of Hawaiʻi’s Office of Strategic Health Initiatives director Aimee Grace.
“It also means that the success of the registry and it’s ability to get the important data needed to address knowledge gaps about the long term health effects of exposure to jet fuel depends on the impacted population being willing to enroll,” Grace added. Once launched, the University of Hawaiʻi will provide resources to residents affected by the tainted water crisis, as well as track their health.
“What we hope to develop as part of our registry are fact sheets that you could take with you to your doctors appointments and say, ‘look I was exposed, this is what we know about health effects from similar exposures and I have concerns that may be related to this exposure,’” said Red Hill Registry Director Rosana Weldon.
The university has been working with officials in Michigan who started the “Flint Registry”.
About 22-thousand people took part in the “Flint Registry” following the Flint water crisis which first began in 2014. More information about the “Red Hill Registry” project can be found on their website here.
