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年之前，儿童在环境管理决定中基本上被忽视，尽管越来越多的证据表明，儿童的发育中的身体更容易受到环境健康威胁的影响。在过去的25年里，CEHS通过联邦政府对CEHS中心网络的支持进行了扩展，这进一步促进了关于儿童易受环境健康威胁影响的科学研究。将监管保护导向最脆弱群体的想法已经流行起来，并在一定程度上被写入了法律和政策。然而，关于CEHS如何以及在多大程度上影响了监管政策，以及CEHS的跨学科性和对社区参与性研究的关注如何影响该领域和环境政策的发展的分析很少。这项研究的结果将发表在影响较大的同行评议期刊上，并将通过在专业组织和会议上的演讲和白皮书向科学、宣传和政府团体传播；这些成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人就读于一家为少数族裔服务的机构。研究小组将对科学家、监管机构和倡导者进行采访。该小组还将从事档案研究和参与者观察，以建立CEHS的历史，并探索科学家、非专业人员和倡导者如何为其发展和演变做出贡献。该小组还计划审查CEHS对联邦环境法规的影响，并将审查CEHS中心在CEH演变和将CEHS转化为政策方面所发挥的作用。该项目的成果将有助于正在进行的科学和技术研究中关于科学、法规和宣传之间相互作用的对话。他们将为同行评议的文献作出贡献，这些文献涉及脆弱性、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。该项目还将与科学家、监管机构和倡导者分享经验教训并提出建议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.