Social Science-Environmental Health Interdisciplinary Collaborations

 描述（申请人提供）：这个为期两天的会议在2015年5月或6月将汇集60-100名学者，政府机构的专业人士，和社区为基础的组织在社会和环境健康科学的交叉工作，以审查进展到目前为止，发展“最佳实践”为未来的研究，并广泛传播材料，以支持这一跨学科竞技场的未来培训。会议将实现三个具体目标：1）举行一次会议，审查社会科学和环境健康交叉领域的研究和实践的贡献; 2）为未来的研究和实践制定“最佳实践”; 3）传播研究结果，并为信息交流和数据存档创建持续的门户网站。长期以来，社会科学家在研究环境健康威胁的影响方面发挥了作用，包括对受到危险废物污染或受到石油泄漏或化学品排放伤害的社区进行人种学研究。近年来，社会科学家与环境健康科学家合作进行生物监测和家庭暴露监测，并在NIEHS环境正义和基于社区的预防性研究赠款以及NIEHS中心中发挥了重要作用。环境健康科学家越来越多地转向社会科学方法，以完善他们面向社区的研究和实践。因此，现在是时候通过这样的会议巩固社会科学/环境卫生合作了。通过广泛的会前规划和会后后续行动，本次会议将为寻求在社会科学-环境健康界面工作的学者以及希望资助利用此类研究方法的政府机构和基金会提供指导。在与NIEHS战略计划的相关性方面，本次会议与主题3：转化科学，主题5：培训和教育，横向主题：合作和综合方法，目标8：加强各级教育和培训的EHS教学，目标9：培养一支多元化、训练有素的科学家队伍，推动我们变革性的环境健康科学向前发展，目标11：促进研究人员和利益相关者之间的双向沟通和合作，例如，政策制定者，临床医生，干预和预防从业人员以及公众，以推进环境健康科学的研究转化。会议将由东北大学社会科学环境健康研究所与长期（10年）合作伙伴寂静的春天研究所合作组织。合作者在跨学科研究和培训方面处于领先地位。我们将鼓励NIEHS工作人员、其他NIH研究所和中心以及相关NSF和EPA项目的参与。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This two-day conference in May or June 2015 will bring together 60-100 scholars, government agency professionals, and community-based organizations working at the intersection of the social and environmental health sciences, in order to review progress to date, develop "best practices" for future research, and broadly disseminate materials to support future training in this transdisciplinary arena. The conference will achieve three specific aims: 1) Conduct a conference to examine the contributions of research and practice at the intersection of social science and environmental health; 2) Develop "best practices" for future research and practice; 3) Disseminate findings and create ongoing web portal for information exchange and data archiving. Social scientists have long played a role in studying the impacts of environmental health threats, including ethnographic studies of communities contaminated by hazardous waste or harmed by oil spills or chemical releases. In recent years, social scientists have collaborated with environmental health scientists on biomonitoring and household exposure monitoring, and have played important roles on NIEHS Environmental Justice and Community-based Participatory Research grants and in NIEHS centers. Environmental health scientists are increasingly turning to social science approaches to round out their community-oriented research and practice. Hence, it is time to solidify social science/environmental health collaborations with such a conference. Through extensive pre-conference planning and post-conference follow-up, this conference will provide guidance to scholars seeking to work at the social science-environmental health interface, as well as government agencies and foundations who wish to fund ways to utilize such research approaches. In terms of relevance to NIEHS' Strategic Plan, this conference meshes well with Theme 3: Translational Science, Theme 5: Training and Education, Cross-cutting theme: Collaborative and Integrative Approaches, Goal 8: Enhance the teaching of EHS at all levels of education and training, Goal 9: Inspire a diverse and well-trained cadre of scientists to move our transformative environmental health science forward, and train the next generation of EHS leaders from a wider range of scientific disciplines and diverse backgrounds, and Goal 11: Promote bidirectional communication and collaboration between researchers and stakeholders, e.g., policy-makers, clinicians, intervention and prevention practitioners, and the public, in orde to advance research translation in the environmental health science. The conference will be organized by the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University, in collaboration with long-time (10 years) partner, Silent Spring Institute. The collaborators have pioneered in transdisciplinary research and training. We will encourage participation by NIEHS staff, other NIH Institutes and Centers, and relevant NSF and EPA programs.