Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心

• 批准号: 10354276
• 负责人: Rae Alison O'Leary
• 金额: $ 10.03万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-21 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10354276
• 关键词: Advisory Committees; Advocacy; Affect; Arsenic; Cardiometabolic Disease; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Community Outreach; Community Participation; Custom; Data; Data Analyses; Diet; Dietary Intervention; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education and Outreach; Educational Materials; Educational workshop; Elderly; Elements; Ensure; Environment; Equilibrium; Exposure to; Feedback; Future Teacher; Goals; Government; Health; Heart; High School Student; Impact evaluation; Improve Access; Industry; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Leadership; Metal exposure; Metals; Mission; Missouri; Native Americans; North Dakota; Nutritional; Nutritional status; Outcome; Planet Earth; Play; Population; Prevention; Prevention strategy; Printed Media; Privatization; Process; Program Research Project Grants; Prospective cohort study; Public Health; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Research Priority; Resources; Rest; Rights; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Rural; Rural Community; Science; Scientist; Signal Recognition Particle; Site; Source; South Dakota; Superfund; System; Technology; Toxic effect; Universities; Uranium; Visualization software; Vitamin B Complex; Water; Water Pollutants; Work; anthropogenesis; base; cardiometabolism; citizen science; community engagement; data management; data sharing; disorder prevention; drinking water; environmental chemical; evidence base; experience; ground water; hazard; improved; indigenous community; innovation; member; metal poisoning; northern plains; novel; prevent; programs; remediation; rural environment; sample collection; social media; superfund site; symposium; toxic metal; treatment strategy; tribal Nation; tribal community; water quality; water sampling

Community Engagement Core (CEC) Summary Community engagement is central to the goals of the Columbia University Northern Plains Superfund Research Program (CUNP-SRP), which seeks to reduce exposure to arsenic (As), uranium (U), and other metals through systems science, traditional knowledge, and technology innovation. Tribal communities, similar to other rural communities, are disproportionately exposed to As and U in groundwater from anthropogenic and geogenic sources. The Community Engagement Core (CEC) of the CUNP-SRP will partner with tribal communities in North and South Dakota affected by toxic elements in drinking water. The main objectives of the CEC are to mitigate exposure to metals in drinking water and prevent related health outcomes through bidirectional and participatory community engagement, advocacy, citizen science, capacity building, and impact evaluation. The CEC builds upon a strong collaboration between Columbia University, Missouri Breaks Industries Research, Inc. (MBIRI), and the Strong Heart Study (SHS). MBIRI is a Native American-owned research firm that has partnered with tribal nations for 25 years and is centrally located in South Dakota. The SHS is a prospective cohort study of cardiometabolic disease and its risk factors in Native American populations, ongoing since 1989. The objectives of the CUNP-SRP CEC will engage all Project scientists and local community members to: (1) integrate the Northern Plains perspective of diverse tribal and rural community members into all CUNP-SRP activities (through a Community Advisory Committee, tribal research symposia, and communication portfolio); (2) provide outreach and education to support evidence-based approaches for improving drinking water quality in the Northern Plains (including enhanced remediation technology developed by Project 5); and (3) prevent metal-related cardiometabolic outcomes through nutritional interventions (informed by Projects 3 and 4). To achieve these aims, we will leverage established partnerships with diverse and multi-tiered stakeholders across tribal communities including tribal and government partners involved in resources and environment, high school students and teachers, tribal officials and elders, and community members. The CEC focuses on a community that is engaged and integrated in all Projects, helping collect water samples and identifying safe drinking water resources (Projects 1, 2, and 3), understanding the health risks (Projects 3 and 4), implementing prevention strategies (Projects 1, 3, and 4), adapting novel remediation strategies (Project 5), and providing hands-on opportunities for SRP trainees and local community members. The CEC will also leverage strong partnerships with other SRP centers that strive to improve public health in Indigenous communities and other rural environments. With a commitment to safeguarding tribal sovereignty and the right of citizens and communities to participate as equal partners in the scientific process, the CEC will play a major role in mitigating groundwater metal exposures and related disease in Northern Plains tribal communities, making drinking water safer and promoting healthy traditional diets that improve nutritional status and can prevent cardiometabolic disease.

社区参与核心（CEC）摘要