Community Outreach and Dissemination Core

自2010年5月以来，德克萨斯大学加尔维斯顿医学分支（UTMB）一直参与应对深水地平线灾难。与社区团体的多次讨论表明，人们主要关注的是缺乏有关石油中石油多环烃安全性的知识，以及对食物网和人类健康的长期影响。令人担忧的是，许多家庭不仅靠海湾海鲜为生，而且还依靠其收成获得经济支持。因此，本提案旨在了解海湾石油污染对健康的长期影响，重点是有鳍鱼类和贝类以及食用它们对人类的潜在影响。CODC采用以社区为基础的前瞻性研究方法，积极让社区参与所有活动。CODC包括来自洛杉矶、AL和MS、UTMB、宾夕法尼亚大学、德克萨斯A&M大学加尔维斯顿、洛杉矶州立大学和亚利桑那大学的社区团体。其目标是作为社区合作伙伴、科学家、地方卫生官员、决策者和 更大的公众。CODC将利用科学发现制定外展、干预和教育方案，以提高受影响社区的复原力。具体目标包括：1）根据以往的灾难恢复干预措施发展CODC网络2）发展和维护利益相关者咨询委员会，作为社区利益相关者和学术联盟成员之间双向沟通的机制; 3）根据与风险评估、风险管理和风险沟通有关的科学发现，制定外展、干预和教育方法; 5）翻译项目1对受影响社区固有/传统社区复原力的调查结果，并利用它们来建设社区复原力能力; 6）制定战略，为受影响的个人或社区提出的与健康有关的问题提供答案; 7）评估研究过程和结果，以确定在减少脆弱性和提高所涉社区的复原力方面取得的成功。

The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) has been Involved in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster since May 2010. Multiple discussions with community groups have revealed primary concerns over lack of knowledge regarding the safety of petrogenic polycyclic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the oil and long-term effects on the food web and human health. Concerns are increased since many families not only subsist on Gulf seafood but also rely on its harvest for financial support. This proposal thus seeks to understand the long-term health effects from contamination of the Gulf by oil, with emphasis on finfish and shellfish and potential effects in humans consuming them. The CODC embraces a Community-Based Participatory Research approach, actively involving communities in all activities. The CODC includes community groups from LA, AL and MS, UTMB, the University of Pennsylvania, Texas A&M University at Galveston, LA State University, and the University of AZ. Its goal is to serve as the mechanism for bidirectional communication among community partners, scientists, local health officials, policy makers, and the greater public. The CODC will utilize scientific findings to create programs in outreach, intervention, and education to increase the resiliency of affected communities. Specific aims include: 1) Develop CODC network based on previous disaster recovery interventions 2) Develop and maintain the Stakeholder Advisory Board as the mechanism for bidirectional communication among community stakeholders and academic consortium members; 3) Develop methods for outreach, intervention, and education based upon scientific findings related to risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication; 4) Develop methods to translate and disseminate findings to the broader public; 5) Translate findings from the Project 1 investigation of the inherent/traditional community resilience in affected communities and utilize them to build community resiliency capacity; 6) Develop strategies to provide answers to health-related questions from impacted individuals or communities; and 7) Evaluate study processes and results to determine success in reducing vulnerability and increasing the resilience of communities involved.