CORE--Community Outreach and Translation Core

哈佛儿童环境健康研究中心的社区外展和翻译中心（COTC）将与来自其他项目和核心的调查人员以及一个活跃的COTC顾问委员会合作，将中心的科学发现翻译并应用于公众、政策制定者和临床研究。 专业人士使用，以保护儿童的健康。咨询委员会将包括一名产科医生，负责研究地区的大多数分娩;一名负责治疗当地精神健康门诊病人的医生，一名印第安健康诊所的公共卫生护士，一名县卫生部门负责预防铅中毒的健康教育工作者，一名部落环境主任，部落指定人员，Integris医院的管理人员，青年精神卫生设施的首席执行官，部落反铅努力外联主任。COTC将集中精力汇编和总结文献中的信息以及中心赞助的研究结果，这些研究涉及与采矿废物中金属接触相关的儿童健康风险;采矿废物中金属与营养状况之间的潜在相互作用;以及可能改变金属接触的个人和文化特定行为。将在医生候诊室、图书馆、广告牌和其他公共场所散发小册子和海报，宣传评估和减轻孕妇和儿童接触风险的简单措施。COTC的网站（www.leadagency.org）将用于交流中心每个研究项目的进展情况。此外，将每两个月出版一份通讯， 专题采访和该中心的科学家在该项目上工作的文章。COTC将赞助中心教师参与向NEO A & M学院的当地学生讲授12小时的基本环境健康概念。中心教师将被邀请通过远程学习在核心班和护理学校在NEO和当地职业技术学校客座讲座。这个远程学习计划将允许当地学者和近地天体学生参加课程的学分，这将是由俄克拉荷马州州立大学提供。COTC的另一个组成部分是一个社区学者计划，该计划将招募和促进当地学者的专业成长，这些学者有兴趣了解环境健康和中心的研究，并将开发自己的小型研究项目。这些学者将在俄克拉荷马州，特别是在渥太华县招募，并将包括来自不同学科的个人，包括环境卫生，教育，环境科学和公共政策领域。最后，COTC核心将与行政核心合作，汇编和分发年度报告。

ABSTRACT The Community Outreach and Translation Core (COTC) of the Harvard Children's Environmental Health Research Center will work with the investigators from each of the other Projects and Cores as well as an active COTC Advisory Board to translate and apply the scientific findings of the Center into information for the public, policy makers, and clinical professionals to use to protect the health of children. The Advisory Board will include an obstetrician responsible for the majority of births in the study area; a physician responsible for treatment of patients at the local mental health out patient clinic, a public health nurse at the Indian Health Clinic, a health educator at the county health department dealing with lead poisoning prevention, a tribal environmental director, tribal designees, administrator of Integris Hospital, CEO of a mental health facility for youth, Tribal Efforts Against Lead outreach director. The COTC will concentrate its efforts on compiling and summarizing information from the literature and from the findings of Center-sponsored studies pertaining to the health risks to children that are associated with exposures to metals in mining waste; the potential interactions between metals in mining waste and nutritional status; and personal and culture-specific behaviors that may modify exposure to metals. Simple measures for assessing and mitigating risks of exposure to pregnant women and children will be communicated in the form of pamphlets and posters distributed in doctors' waiting rooms, libraries, billboards and other public places. The COTC's website (www.leadagency.org) will be used to communicate progress in each of the Center's research projects. In addition, a newsletter will be published bi-monthly, that will feature interviews and articles of the Center's scientists working on the project. The COTC will sponsor the participation of Center faculty in teaching 12 hours of basic environmental health concepts to local students at NEO A & M College. Center faculty will be invited to guest lecture via distance learning in core classes and the nursing school at NEO and at the local vocational technical school. This Distance Learning program will allow local scholars and NEO students to take the courses for credit, which will be provided by Oklahoma State University. Another component of the COTC is a community scholars program that will recruit and foster the professional growth of local scholars who are interested in learning about environmental health and the Center's research, and who will develop small research projects of their own. These scholars will be recruited within Oklahoma, especially within Ottawa County, and will include individuals from various disciplines to encompass the fields of environmental health, education, environmental sciences and public policy. Finally, the COTC core will work with the Administrative Core to compile and disseminate an Annual Report.