Community Engagement and Dissemination Core

项目概要/摘要-CEDC MADRES环境基金会社区参与和传播核心（CEDC）的使命 健康差异中心是为了提高公众对环境影响的理解和意识 对妇女的健康，特别是在怀孕和产后期间，通过从事中心的研究人员， 科学家和临床医生与居民、社区、卫生保健提供者、政策制定者和公共卫生 建立公平和可持续的伙伴关系。CEDC参与以社区为基础的社会 在健康差距社区工作的司法和卫生保健组织、科学家和政府官员， 一个多方向、适合文化和语言的信息传播框架， 研究结果和政策战略，以了解和减少产妇环境健康差距。的 CEDC开发了一个成功的模式，使拉丁美洲人与多种族健康差距一起参与 社区在解决家庭和邻里一级的环境健康问题，在城市洛杉矶 加利福尼亚州洛杉矶在目前的奖项中，我们开发了新的方法来培训母亲，居民和年轻人， 参与式环境卫生讲习班，进行社区空气监测，与多个 利益相关者实施一项新的努力，以评估和减少有毒空气排放在社区规模， 利用传统和非传统的通信技术，广泛传播中心的科学。在 MADRES更新，我们将继续推动母亲环境卫生知识的普及， 与社区卫生工作者建立新的伙伴关系。我们将把研究成果传播给当地和全国的观众 利用创新的沟通方法，开发适合文化的工具，分享调查结果和成果 与MADRES队列参与者。CEDC将进一步提供消除、减少或减轻 对弱势群体的不利环境健康影响，并评估我们的CEDC的成功 活动

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT--CEDC The mission of the Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (CEDC) of the MADRES Environmental Health Disparities Center is to increase public understanding and awareness of the effects of the environment on women’s health, especially during pregnancy and the postpartum period, by engaging Center researchers, scientists and clinicians with residents, communities, health care providers, policymakers and public health officials to create equitable and sustainable partnerships. The CEDC engages with community-based social justice and health care organizations working in health disparity communities, scientists and public officials using a multi-directional and culturally-appropriate and language justice framework to disseminate information, research findings, and policy strategies to understand and reduce maternal environmental health disparities. The CEDC has developed a successful model to engage Latinas together with multi-ethnic health disparity communities in addressing household- and neighborhood- level environmental health concerns in urban Los Angeles, CA. In the current award, we developed novel methods to train mothers, residents and youth in participatory environmental health workshops, conducted community air monitoring, collaborated with multiple stakeholders implementing a novel effort to assess and reduce toxic air emissions at a neighborhood scale, and leveraged traditional and nontraditional communications techniques to disseminate Center science broadly. In the MADRES renewal we will continue to advance environmental health literacy among mothers and leverage new partnership with community health workers. We will disseminate research to local and national audience utilizing innovative communication methods and develop culturally-appropriate tools to share findings and results with MADRES cohort participants. The CEDC will further provide strategies to eliminate, reduce or mitigate adverse environmental health impacts to vulnerable populations and evaluate the success of our CEDC activities.