Translation Core

翻译核心：项目概要/摘要 翻译核心（TC）支持南加州儿童环境中心的使命 健康转化研究（SC-CCEHTR）利用现有的科学知识基础， 跨学科团队和促进多方利益攸关方的参与。除了传统的儿童 环境健康科学家，TC汇集了沟通，政策，戏剧艺术，城市 规划，土地利用设计，实施科学和方案评估围绕中心的主题， 城市化，空气污染，儿童健康和环境正义。翻译核心将借鉴 该中心广泛的科学基础，从中建立多样化的跨学科团队和社区 围绕三个重点领域建立伙伴关系：1）青年参与和社区科学; 2）城市设计和政策 解决方案和3）沟通和公共知识。这些都是有效地翻译研究所必需的， 减少儿童因空气污染引起的疾病、残疾和环境健康差异而承受的负担。的 TC的总体目标是提高公众和决策者的环境健康素养， 为保护儿童环境健康采取知情行动;合作开展和传播重要研究 通过创新的新闻报道向地方和国家受众传播调查结果; 环境正义团体利用科学研究和资源;并提供工具和战略 消除、减少或减轻不利的环境暴露。一个强有力的评价机制， 通信、网络分析和实施科学方面的多学科专业知识将评估效能 并为奖学金提供坚实的基础。TC将建立在交叉路口二十年的经验基础上 空气污染，儿童健康和翻译，导致成功的模式，使社区参与 和决策者，以解决与交通和货物流动有关的环境健康差异， 南加州。研究人员合作创建了一些模型，使科学方法的使用民主化， 信息是社区和政策一级采取行动的工具。技术委员会将利用这一经验， 整合新的方法，培训居民，青年和政策制定者在空气污染科学，与 多个利益相关者在社区范围内努力评估和减少有毒空气排放， 并扩大我们的参与计划，包括讲故事，参与式城市规划和戏剧。在 此外，我们将利用传统和非传统的通信技术，如社交媒体， 以地理为目标的电子邮件、通讯和信息图表，向利益攸关方提供最新科学和 调动社区的力量，通过改变政策减少环境健康负担。

TRANSLATION CORE: PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Translation Core (TC) supports the mission of Southern California Center for Children’s Environmental Health Translational Research (SC-CCEHTR) to leverage the existing scientific knowledge base to build diverse interdisciplinary teams and foster multidirectional stakeholder engagement. In addition to traditional children’s environmental health scientists, the TC brings together experts in communication, policy, dramatic arts, urban planning, land-use design, implementation science and program evaluation around the Center’s theme of Urbanism, Air Pollution, Children’s Health and Environmental Justice. The Translation Core will draw on the Center’s extensive scientific base from which to build diverse interdisciplinary teams and community partnerships around three Focus Areas: 1) Youth Engagement & Community Science; 2) Urban Design & Policy Solutions and 3) Communication & Public Knowledge. These are needed to translate research effectively and reduce the burden of air pollution-related disease, disability and environmental health disparities in children. The overarching goals of the TC are to increase environmental health literacy among the public and policymakers to inform action to protect children’s environmental health; collaboratively develop and disseminate key research findings to local and national audiences through innovative journalism; build knowledge and capacity of urban environmental justice communities to leverage scientific studies and resources; and provide tools and strategies to eliminate, reduce or mitigate adverse environmental exposures. A robust evaluation mechanism leveraging multidisciplinary expertise in communication, network analysis, and implementation science will assess efficacy and provide a strong basis for scholarship. The TC will build upon two decades of experience at the intersection of air pollution, children’s health and translation that has resulted in successful models to engage communities and decision-makers to address environmental health disparities related to traffic and goods movement in Southern California. Investigators have collaboratively created models to democratize the use of scientific information as a tool for action at the community and policy level. The TC will use this experience to develop and integrate novel methods to train residents, youth, and policymakers in air pollution science, collaborate with multiple stakeholders implementing an effort to assess and reduce toxic air emissions at a neighborhood scale, and expand our engagement program to include storytelling, participatory urban planning and theatre. In addition, we will leverage traditional and nontraditional communications techniques such as social media, geographically targeted email, newsletters and infographics to update stakeholders on current science and engage the power of communities to reduce environmental health burdens through policy change.