Center of Excellence: Environmental Health Disparities Core

描述(由申请人提供)：佐治亚州立大学公共卫生研究所请求修改P-20探索性卓越中心的拨款，以增加该中心的环境健康(EH)核心。EH核心将把研究和培训以及社区参与核心的工作与建立社区伙伴关系的活动结合起来，以进行研究、干预和缓解，以响应中心社区合作伙伴的环境健康优先事项。它将建设多学科研究城市EH差异的能力，并将环境健康差异和环境不公平纳入我们对系统性负担的理解中。EH核心将专注于以下具体目标：1)建立一个由组织、机构和机构组成的联合体，重点关注亚特兰大地区的环境健康、正义和差异；2)与研究和社区参与核心合作，建设评估和减轻城市自然、物理和建筑环境中特定的EH风险的能力；3)与研究核心合作，将评估环境暴露的作用的多学科方法纳入当前的中心试点项目4)与社区参与核心合作，加强和扩大以中心社区合作伙伴的环境健康优先事项为重点的研究和缓解活动。5)在公共卫生硕士和博士项目中发展EH重点领域该中心的核心研究活动之一将是评估作为中心合作伙伴的弱势社区的空气污染暴露。试点项目将确定适当的暴露评估方法，包括环境采样和建模，将科学、健全的方法和社区关注的问题纳入设计。环境卫生核心将与英才中心社区外联协调员密切合作，以确定寻求减少环境健康差距以及他们最关心的健康和环境问题的社区团体。该核心将作为社区团体和邻里组织的资源，这些团体和邻里组织寻求关于解决其社区的环境健康问题的指导，并需要在干预方法方面进行咨询。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Georgia State University's Institute of Public Health requests a revision to the P-20 Exploratory Center of Excellence grant to add an Environmental Health (EH) core to the Center. An EH core will integrate and bridge the work of the Research and Training and Community Engagement cores with activities that forge community partnerships to conduct research, intervention, and mitigation that is responsive to the environmental health priorities of the Center's community partners. It will build capacity for multidisciplinary study of urban EH disparities, and integrate environmental health disparities and environmental injustices into our understanding of the systemic burden. The EH core will focus on the following specific aims: 1) Develop a consortium of organizations, agencies and institutions focused on environmental health, justice, and disparities in the Atlanta area 2) Work with the Research and Community Engagement cores to build capacity to evaluate and mitigate EH risks specific to urban natural, physical, and built environment 3) Work with the Research Core to incorporate a multidisciplinary approach evaluating the role of environmental exposures into current Center pilot projects 4) Work with Community Engagement Core to strengthen and expand research and mitigation activities focused on the environmental health priorities of the Center's community partners. 5) Develop an EH focus area in the current MPH and PhD programs in Public Health One of the core's first research activities will be an assessment of air pollution exposures in disadvantaged communities that are Center partners. The pilot project will identify appropriate methods of exposure assessment, including environmental sampling and modeling that incorporate science, sound methodology, and community concerns into the design. The EH core will work closely with the Center of Excellence Community Outreach Coordinator to identify community groups that seek to reduce environmental health disparities as well as the health and environmental issues of most concern to them. The core will act as a resource to community groups and neighborhood organizations that seek instruction regarding addressing environmental health issues in their communities and require consultation in approaches to intervention.