Environment Section meeting for the 2021 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition

项目摘要/摘要 美国公共卫生协会(APHA)将于2021年10月24日至27日主办其年度 科罗拉多州丹佛市的会议和博览会。今年大会的主题是 预计将有超过12,000人参加，这是“创建最健康的国家：加强 社会联系“。部门是25,000名成员的主要专业单位 协会，开展活动，促进使命和实现APHA的目标。而当 一年一度的活动以总体会议为特色，27个部分计划了大部分 会议会议。环境科今年的目标是培养人们对 环境健康，增加学生参与，并提供关于 广泛的环境健康专题，特别是与环境正义和 气候变化。最终，该科努力提供各种各样的会议、海报、 全体会议和特别活动，面向不同的受众，代表学者、卫生 专业人士、社区成员和学生。我们对这项建议的具体目标是： 1)通过提供机制建设下一代环境健康带头人 代表人数不足的学生出席会议； 2)促进学生和公共卫生专业人员之间的导师关系，特别是 围绕环境正义和环境健康科学； 3)通过互联互通，推动数据向知识和行动转化 学生到一个论坛(即一个实践社区)。 通过这项资助，我们将在经济上支持代表人数不足的学生参加 年度会议所能提供的一切。我们将利用一个由1500名学者组成的网络， 政府、社区和环境卫生专业人员直接促进 向全美多所学校提供会议奖学金。在完成 为此，我们将在APHA内为未被充分代表的学生建立一个专业渠道 向环境健康科学事业进军。作为回报，赞助学生为我们提供了 参与下一代环境健康科学的机会并通过 它们、新出现的环境健康问题以及多样化的思想、观点和 接近了。因此，我们的目标是支持NIEHS的使命，即引导和支持最好的 与现实世界公共卫生需求相一致的环境卫生科学，并将 将科学发现转化为能够为现实生活中的个人和公共健康结果提供信息的知识。

Project Summary/Abstract The American Public Health Association (APHA) will host on October 24-27 2021 its annual meeting and exposition in Denver, Colorado. The theme for this year's conference, with an anticipated attendance of over 12,000 in total, is "Creating the Healthiest Nation: Strengthening Social Connectedness". Sections are the primary professional units of the 25,000 member Association, conducting activities that promote the mission and fulfill the goals of APHA. While the annual event features overarching sessions, the 27 Sections plan the majority of the conference sessions. The Environment Section's goal this year is to foster interest in environmental health, increase student involvement, and provide educational offerings on a wide range of environmental health topics, especially related to environmental justice and climate change. Ultimately, the Section strives to offer a wide variety of sessions, posters, plenary sessions, and special events to a diverse audience representing academics, health professionals, community members, and students. Our specific aims for this proposal are: 1) Build the next generation of environmental health leaders by providing a mechanism for underrepresented students to attend the meeting; 2) Foster mentorship between students and public health professionals, particularly around environmental justice and environmental health science; 3) Advance the promotion of translating data to knowledge and action by connecting students to a forum (i.e. a community of practice). Through this grant, we will financially support the participation of underrepresented students in all that the annual meeting has to offer. We will leverage a network of 1,500 academic, governmental, and community-based environmental health professionals to directly promote the conference scholarship to a wide range of schools across the United States. In accomplishing this we will create a professional pipeline within APHA for underrepresented students geared towards environmental health science careers. In return, sponsoring students provides us the opportunity to engage with the next generation of environmental health sciences and through them, emerging environmental health issues and a diversity of thought, perspectives, and approaches. As such we aim to support NIEHS's mission to conduct and support the very best environmental health sciences in alignment with real-world public health needs, and to translate science findings into knowledge that can inform real-life individual and public health outcomes.