Examining Childrens Environmental Health Science and Science-Based Regulatory Policy

审查儿童环境健康科学和基于科学的监管政策

• 批准号: 2218566
• 负责人: Marianne Sullivan
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: William Paterson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2218566&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Examining; Childrens; Environmental; Health; Science

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.

该奖项支持儿童环境健康科学（CEHS）的发展和实践以及基于CEHS的监管政策的研究。1995年以前，尽管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的影响，但在环境管理决定中，儿童基本上被忽视。在过去的25年里，通过联邦对CEHS中心网络的支持，CEHS得到了扩展，该中心促进了关于儿童对环境健康威胁的脆弱性的科学研究。将监管保护导向最弱势群体的想法已经流行起来，并在一定程度上被编入法律和政策。然而，很少有分析CEHS如何以及在何种程度上影响了监管政策，以及CEHS的跨学科性和对社区参与式研究的关注如何影响了该领域和环境政策的发展。这项研究的结果将发表在高影响力的同行评审期刊上，并将通过在专业组织和会议上的介绍和白色文件传播给科学、宣传和政府团体;这些结果还将用于课程编制。此外，该项目将培训和指导多达6名本科生，其中3人就读于为少数群体服务的机构。研究小组将与科学家、监管机构和倡导者进行访谈。该团队还将从事档案研究和参与观察，以建立CEHS的历史，并探索科学家，外行人和倡导者如何为其发展和演变做出贡献。该小组还计划研究CEHS对联邦环境法规的影响，并将研究CEHS中心在CEH的演变和将CEHS转化为政策中所发挥的作用。该项目的结果将有助于科学和技术研究中关于科学，法规和宣传之间的相互作用的持续对话。他们将为关于脆弱性、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同行审查文献作出贡献。该奖项反映了NSF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。