WE ENGAGE via Data & Stories to Improve Community Health & Foster STEM education

我们通过数据参与

• 批准号: 10458111
• 负责人: Melinda Sue ButschKovacic
• 金额: $ 24.22万
• 依托单位: CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-06 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10458111
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Abstract/Summary A report following the 2016 Environmental Health Summit recommended engaging citizens in creating their own knowledge and solutions, thus ensuring that their concerns are adequately addressed and promoting sustainability of community projects. Indeed, citizen science has the potential to initiate a cascade of events with a positive ripple effect that includes a more diverse future STEM and biomedical workforce. This SEPA proposal involves the establishment of WE ENGAGE – an informal, citizen science-based, environmental health experiential learning program designed in partnership with and for under resourced communities struggling with health and environmental health challenges. Its purpose is to actively engage and build the citizen science capacity of citizens living in a single cluster of three contiguous under resourced, minority Cincinnati neighborhoods where generational challenges continue to plague residents despite the presence of established academic-community partnerships. Our hypothesis is that community-informed, experiential learning opportunities outside of the classroom that are structured, multigenerational, and story-based will encourage a) the active asking, discussion about, and answering of relevant complex health and environmental questions so that individuals and communities can plan action steps to make better health choices and pursue healthier environments, and b) greater interest and confidence in pursuing formal biomedical/STEM education and STEM careers. Our program has three specific aims: 1) We will co-create tailored story- based (graphic novel style) STEM education materials with a community advisory board and offer informal STEM education and research training to our target communities; 2) we will facilitate the application of scientific inquiry skills to improve health via community-led health fairs that use an innovative electronic health passport platform to collect data and through facilitated community discussions of health fair data to generate motivating stories to share; and 3) we will facilitate the application of scientific inquiry skills to foster community pride and activism in promoting healthier/safer built environments via walking environmental assessments. As in aim 2, facilitated discussions will be held to spur future community based participatory research studies and interventions. Critical to our success is the concept of storytelling. Storytelling is a foundation of the human experience. A key purpose of storytelling is not just understanding the world, but positively transforming it. It is a common language. Bringing together STEM concepts in the form of a story increases their appeal and meaning. Later, the very process of community data collection gives individuals a voice. In a data story, hundreds to millions of voices can be distilled into a single narrative that can help community members probe important underlying associations and get to the root causes of complicated health issues relevant to their communities. Through place based, understandable, motivating data stories, the community's collective voice is clearer—leading to relevant and viable actions that can be decided and taken together. From preventing chronic disease, to nurturing healthier environments, to encouraging STEM education — stories have unlimited potential.

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项目成果

Shared Purpose: Leveraging a Community-Academic Partnership to Increase Local Environmental Health Awareness via Community Science.

• DOI: 10.35844/001c.38475
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of participatory research methods
• 作者: Martin, Lisa J;Hill, Vincent;Maples, Curtis;Baker, Theresa;Elshaer, Shereen;Butsch Kovacic, Melinda
• 通讯作者: Butsch Kovacic, Melinda

Promoting Community Health and Understanding of Science Topics by Reading Graphic-Style Stories Aloud Together.

通过一起大声朗读图画风格的故事，促进社区健康和对科学主题的理解。

• DOI: 10.1177/10901981231159681
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education
• 作者: Kohli,Eshika;Morris,Edith;Humphries,Jaqueline;Gertz,Susan;Mabisi,Keren;Hershberger,Susan;ButschKovacic,Melinda
• 通讯作者: ButschKovacic,Melinda