Community Engagement Core

项目摘要 迅速扩大的环境健康科学（EHS）领域为制定政策提供了巨大的希望， 改善社区，改善健康。EHS研究工作由创新和包容性推动 使了解并能够影响环境驱动的利益攸关方群体参与的伙伴关系 差异，以及旨在快速有效地将团队集中在新兴EHS问题上的基础设施 和机会。我们的P30中心的核心，CEC，是一个强大的协作加速器，接收 利益相关者对中心活动的重要投入，并采取同样重要的产出-我们的研究成果- 社区. CEC联合了西奈山的EHS研究人员，利益相关者专家， 参与和多元化的倡导者，教育工作者，临床医生，资助者，政策制定者，系统领导者和 企业家组成我们高度合作的利益相关者咨询委员会（SAB），我们的基础设施， 开创性的EHS研究。在过去的三年里，我们建立了促进合作的能力， 利益相关者团体和中心成员之间的对话，将尖端科学转化为预防 这些措施能够接触到不同的受众并与之产生共鸣，为政策提供信息，并作为 环境变化我们最初的活动集中在纽约市的多元文化地区，特别是我们的 东哈莱姆和南布朗克斯的邻近社区，这些社区对环境的暴露程度很高， 有毒物质和社会压力以及不成比例的健康状况不佳。我们用我们学到的东西 进一步解决国内和国际的EHS问题。我们在四个方面进行了创新：临床（探索 开发EHS筛选器，将患者与当地资源联系起来）;教育（培训数十名内城 教师教授EHS/公民科学）;社区和政策传播（通过主持人面对面 峰会，市中心学校教师培训，并通过强大的社交媒体，我们的网站，短片， 卡通，信息图表）;和火花新颖的合作研究（皮肤漂白，橡胶屑草皮CBPR）。 我们的目标是通过创新继续我们强大的参与活动：（1）临床护理， 实施电子EHS筛选器，用于临床护理，以识别和解决EHS挑战， （2）通过支持EHS倡导者翻译和传播EHS研究， 不同的利益相关者，他们可以增强研究的影响，为未来的研究提供信息， 基于社区的研究;（3）传统和社交媒体传播，使利益相关者对研究采取行动 调查结果，有效地识别当地关注的EHS问题，并将其传达给研究人员， 从研究到行动;（4）通过提高我们的合作伙伴使用混合方法的能力进行评估 评估过程和结果。促进这种性质的社区学术伙伴关系将 确保社区关注处于研究的最前沿，并将使我们的合作伙伴在以下方面具有竞争力： 研究补助金这种协作工作指导未来研究的选择，设计和实施。

Project Summary The rapidly expanding field of environmental health science (EHS) holds great promise for informing policy, bettering communities, and improving health. EHS research efforts are propelled by innovative and inclusive partnerships that engage the stakeholder groups who understand and can impact environmentally driven disparities, and an infrastructure designed to rapidly and efficiently focus teams on emerging EHS questions and opportunities. The heart of our P30 Center, the CEC, is a powerful collaborative accelerator, receiving critical input from stakeholders into Center activities and taking equally critical output—our research results—to communities. The CEC has united Mount Sinai's community of EHS researchers, experts in stakeholder engagement and diverse advocates, educators, clinicians, funders, policymakers, systems leaders and entrepreneurs to form our highly collaborative Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB), our infrastructure for groundbreaking EHS research. Over the past three years, we built the capacity to facilitate collaborative dialogue between stakeholder groups and Center Members to translate cutting edge science into prevention measures that reach and resonate with diverse audiences, inform policies, and act as catalysts for environmental change. We initially focused our activities in multicultural areas of NYC, specifically our neighboring communities of East Harlem and the South Bronx, which have high exposures to environmental toxicants and social stressors and disproportionately poor health. We have used what we have learned to further address national and international EHS concerns. We have innovated in four areas: clinical (exploring development of an EHS screener to link patients to local resources); educational (training dozens of inner city teachers to teach EHS/citizen science); community and policy dissemination (in-person through hosting summits, inner-city school teacher trainings, and virtually through robust social media, our website, short films, cartoons, infographics); and sparking novel partnered research (skin bleaching, crumb rubber turf CBPRs). We aim to continue our robust engagement activities by innovating: (1) clinical care by developing and implementing an electronic EHS screener for use in clinical care to identify and address EHS challenges for high risk children; (2) education by supporting EHS champions to translate and disseminate EHS research for diverse stakeholders who can enhance the impact of the research, inform future research and facilitate community-based research; (3) traditional and social media dissemination so stakeholders act on research findings, effectively identify EHS issues of local concern and communicate them to researchers and moving from research to action; (4) evaluation by enhancing the capacity of our partners to use mixed-methods evaluation of processes and outcomes. Promotion of community academic partnerships of this nature will ensure community concerns are at the forefront of research and will position our partners to be competitive for research grants. This collaborative work guides the selection, design, and implementation of future research.