BUREAU PROGRAMS

• Analytical Environmental Epidemiology
• Asthma Program
• Aquatic Toxins
• Birth Defects Registry
• Chemical Disease Surveillance
• Environmental Public Health Tracking
• Food and Waterborne Disease
• Hazardous Waste Site Health Risk Assessment
• Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
• Pesticide Poisoning Surveillance
• Rabies Surveillance
• Toxicology
• Vector-borne Disease
• Zoonotic Disease

Florida Birth Defects Registry

As in other areas of the country, birth defects are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Florida's children and contribute substantially to long-term disability. The possible association between environmental contaminants and human health problems is an important concern throughout Florida. To answer this and other important questions, and to develop prevention strategies, Florida needed a statewide system of identifying birth defects.

With this in mind, the 1997 Florida Legislature passed legislation and appropriated funds to establish a birth defects registry. Following this legislative mandate, the Florida Department of Health created the Florida Birth Defects Registry (FBDR) to be managed by the Division of Environmental Health, Bureau of Community Environmental Health, in partnership with a consortium of universities as a statewide population-based birth defects surveillance system. Currently the registry is maintained for the Department of Health by USF Birth Defects Center & UF Division of Pediatric Genetics.

Contact Information

For questions concerning the birth defects registry and the Florida Department of Health's activities, please contact Ms. Jane Correia:

Jane A. Correia, Environmental Specialist III
Florida Department of Health
Bureau of Community Environmental Health
4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #A08
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1712

Delivery address:
4042 Bald Cypress Way, Room 215K

Telephone: (850)245-4444; ext 2198
SunCom: 205-4444; ext. 2198
Fax: (850)922-8473
SunCom Fax: 292-8473
Email: Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing (F.S. 668.6076)
Email the Birth Defect Registry.