Examining Childrens Environmental Health Science and Science-Based Regulatory Policy

该奖项支持对儿童环境健康科学（CEHS）的发展和实践以及基于CEHS的监管政策的研究。在1995年以前，尽管有越来越多的证据表明，儿童发育中的身体更容易受到环境健康威胁，但在环境管制决定中基本上忽视了儿童。在过去的25年里，儿童健康和健康服务通过联邦政府对儿童健康和健康服务中心网络的支持扩大了规模，该网络进一步推动了关于儿童易受环境健康威胁的科学研究。将监管保护导向最弱势群体的想法已经流行起来，并在某种程度上被写入了法律和政策。然而，很少有人分析CEHS如何以及在多大程度上影响监管政策，以及CEHS的跨学科性和对基于社区的参与性研究的关注如何影响该领域的发展和环境政策。这项研究的结果将发表在具有高度影响力的同行评议期刊上，并将在专业组织和会议上以专题报告和白皮书的形式分发给科学、宣传和政府团体；它们也将用于课程开发。此外，该项目将培训和指导多达六名本科生，其中三人就读于一所为少数民族服务的机构。研究小组将与科学家、监管机构和倡导者进行访谈。该团队还将进行档案研究和参与性观察，以建立CEHS的历史，并探索科学家、非专业人士和倡导者如何为其发展和演变做出贡献。该团队还计划研究CEHS对联邦环境法规的影响，并将研究CEHS中心在CEH演变和CEHS转化为政策的过程中所起的作用。该项目的结果将有助于科学和技术研究中关于科学、法规和倡导之间相互作用的持续对话。他们将为同行评议的关于脆弱性、公平和正义在科学领域发展中的作用以及如何将这些概念转化为政策的文献作出贡献。该项目还将与科学家、监管机构和倡导者合作，分享经验教训并提出建议。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a study of the development and practice of Children’s Environmental Health Science (CEHS) and of regulatory policy based in CEHS. Prior to 1995, children were largely ignored in environmental regulatory decisions despite growing evidence that their developing bodies were more vulnerable to environmental health threats. Over the past twenty-five years, CEHS has expanded through federal support for a network of CEHS centers, which furthered scientific research on children’s vulnerability to environmental health threats. The idea of orienting regulatory protections toward the most vulnerable has gained currency, and it has been codified to some extent in law and policy. However, there has been little analysis of how and to what extent CEHS has influenced regulatory policy and how CEHS’s interdisciplinarity and focus on community based participatory research has influenced the development of the field and environmental policy. The results of this study will be published in high-impact peer reviewed journals, and they will be disseminated to scientific, advocacy and governmental groups via presentations and white papers at professional organizations and conferences; they will also be used for curriculum development. In addition, the project will train and mentor up to six undergraduate students, three of whom attend a minority-serving institution. The research team will conduct interviews with scientists, regulators, and advocates. The team will also engage in archival research and participant observation to establish a history of CEHS, and to explore how scientists, lay people, and advocates contributed to its development and evolution. The team also plans to examine the impacts of CEHS on federal environmental regulations, and it will examine the role CEHS centers played in the evolution of CEH and the translation of CEHS into policy. The results of this project will contribute to ongoing conversations in Science and Technologies Studies regarding the interactions between science, regulations, and advocacy. They will contribute to the peer reviewed literature on the role of vulnerability, equity, and justice in the development of scientific fields and how these concepts are translated into policy. This project will also engage with scientists, regulators and advocates to share lessons learned and to make recommendations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.