Core--Community Outreach

杜克大学超级基金基础研究计划外展核心旨在建立北卡罗来纳州的技术能力，以确定，评估和解释整个国家的潜在环境暴露。外联核心将利用先进的地理信息系统空间分析来制定和传播外联方案，特别强调儿童的环境健康。外联核心的具体目标包括： 将儿童铅暴露风险模型的传播扩展到北卡罗来纳州的新地区。继续开展宣传和教育工作，重点关注低收入拉丁美洲家庭的家庭环境健康风险，特别强调西班牙裔农场工人。 继续开展空气毒物建模和外展工作，重点关注北卡罗来纳州某些县的不同暴露模式。开发新的全州范围内的汞污染风险模型，供社区团体和州、县卫生和环境官员使用。 外展核心将纳入杜克大学尼古拉斯环境与地球科学学院儿童环境健康倡议（CEHI）的研究、外展和教育工作。儿童健康倡议包括多个以地理信息系统为基础的项目，这些项目侧重于儿童的特殊脆弱性。通过利用CEHI在全州范围内的知名度，外展核心将能够以一种具有时间和成本效益的方式接触到更多的人。所有外联核心项目将包括西班牙语/英语双语社区外联和传播工作。

The Duke University Superfund Basic Research Program Outreach Core seeks to build North Carolina's technical capacity to identify, evaluate, and interpret potential environmental exposures across the state.. The Outreach Core will use sophisticated Geographic Information Systems (GIS) spatial analysis to develop and disseminate outreach programs with a particular emphasis on children's environmental health. Specific aims for the Outreach Core include: To extend the dissemination of childhood lead exposure risk models to new areas of North Carolina. To continue outreach and education efforts focused on home environmental health risks in low income Latino households, with a particular emphasis on Hispanic farmworkers. To continue air toxics modeling and outreach work focused on disparate exposure patterns in select North Carolina counties. To develop new statewide modeling of mercury contamination risk for use by community groups and state and county health and environmental officials. The Outreach Core will be incorporated into the research, outreach, and education efforts of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI) within the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. CEHI includes multiple GIS-based projects that focus on the special vulnerabilities of children. By capitalizing on the statewide name recognition of CEHI, the Outreach Core will be able to reach more individuals in a time- and cost-effective manner. All Outreach Core projects will include Spanish/English bilingual community outreach and dissemination efforts.