Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心

• 批准号: 10361892
• 负责人: Nicole Deziel
• 金额: $ 11.77万
• 依托单位: YALE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-07 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10361892
• 关键词: Acute; Address; Advocate; Affect; Anxiety; Area; Atmosphere; Cities; Communication; Communities; Community Health; Complement; Confusion; County; Data; Dioxanes; Doctor of Philosophy; Economically Deprived Population; Education and Outreach; Educational Materials; Ensure; Environment; Evaluation; Exposure to; Federal Government; Fostering; Gardenal; Goals; Government; Government Agencies; Greenland; Health; Health Policy; Home; Human; Individual; Intervention; Knowledge; Leadership; Learning; Local Government; Long Island; Methods; Modeling; Monitor; New England; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; North Carolina; Phase; Population; Prevention; Process; Program Research Project Grants; Public Health; Public Policy; Puerto Rico; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Resolution; Resources; Risk; Scientist; Services; Site; Solvents; State Government; Superfund; Technology; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Translating; Translational Research; Uncertainty; United States Virgin Islands; Universities; Water; Water Pollutants; Water Supply; Work; base; citizen science; community engagement; community partnership; contaminated drinking water; drinking water; environmental justice; experience; ground water; health assessment; improved; interest; landfill; member; next generation; outreach; public drinking; remediation; skills; superfund site; tool; tribal Nation; vulnerable community; water quality; well water

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Community Engagement Core (CEC) will build bidirectional partnerships with target communities to enhance understanding of the health risks posed by emerging water contaminants in the environment (specifically 1,4- dioxane (1,4-DX)), and to provide interventional strategies that will improve public health and inform health policy. In the first phase of the project, the CEC will focus on communities in Nassau and Suffolk counties of Long Island, New York. These communities include residents whose public drinking water wells are impacted by nearby EPA Superfund sites. The CEC will work with the Research Translation Coordinator (in the Administrative Core) to develop replicable tools and resources to provide data and generate knowledge among stakeholders who are invested in addressing water-related issues in the State of New York, especially in areas near Superfund sites. To accomplish this, we will identify effective methods to communicate risk information to each stakeholder group, including the economically-disadvantaged and environmental justice communities proximal to these sites. The specter of emerging contaminants in drinking water is fraught with uncertainty about risk and appropriate courses of action, creating an atmosphere of confusion, blame, anxiety and, most importantly, mistrust. The CEC will address these challenges through facilitation of engagement and information exchange among the diverse and relevant constituencies in NY. We will create opportunities for constituent groups, including federal, state and local governmental agencies, to learn from each other and share information. We will encourage and facilitate multi-directional interactions among communities and experts to complement and support the Yale Superfund Research and Training Program’s (YSRTP’s) overarching objective of fostering research that improves the exposure assessment, health evaluations, and mitigation of emerging contaminants in drinking water in EPA Regions 1 (New England) and 2 (New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and eight Tribal Nations) and North Carolina. In addition, we will collaborate with the Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (RETCC) to educate and train the next generation of scientists to conduct citizen science and develop skills for advocating for environmental justice and equity. The initiatives implemented in this proposal will be transferable to other communities facing similar challenges including the State of New Hampshire, which will be the second targeted area for CEC activities. We will also be sharing our findings and experience with the North Carolina State University Superfund Center, which is collaborating with the YSRTP’s research projects. The overarching goal of the CEC is to engage, educate and empower residents in impacted communities so they may understand and inform public health policy, and participate in the improvement of public health. Results of this collaborative effort will have a significant impact on the health of human populations in New York and New Hampshire, aid the resolution of similar challenges at Superfund sites throughout the U.S.A., and enhance global efforts to monitor, remediate and determine the impact of water contaminants.

社区参与核心 摘要/摘要 社区参与核心（CEC）将与目标社区建立双向合作伙伴关系，以增强 了解环境中新出现的水污染物（特别是 1,4- 二恶烷（1,4-DX）），并提供干预策略，以改善公共卫生并为卫生政策提供信息。 在该项目的第一阶段，CEC 将重点关注朗县拿骚县和萨福克县的社区 纽约岛。这些社区包括公共饮用水井受到影响的居民 附近的 EPA 超级基金站点。 CEC 将与研究翻译协调员（在行政部门）合作 核心）开发可复制的工具和资源，为利益相关者提供数据并生成知识 他们投资于解决纽约州与水有关的问题，特别是在超级基金附近的地区 网站。为了实现这一目标，我们将确定有效的方法来向每个利益相关者传达风险信息 群体，包括靠近这些地点的经济弱势群体和环境正义社区。 饮用水中新出现的污染物的幽灵充满了风险和适当措施的不确定性。 的行动方针，营造出一种困惑、责备、焦虑，最重要的是，不信任的气氛。中委会 将通过促进不同群体之间的参与和信息交流来应对这些挑战 以及纽约州的相关选区。我们将为选民团体创造机会，包括联邦、州 以及当地政府机构，相互学习并共享信息。我们将鼓励并 促进社区和专家之间的多向互动，以补充和支持耶鲁大学 超级基金研究和培训计划 (YSRTP) 的总体目标是促进以下研究： 改进饮用水中新兴污染物的暴露评估、健康评估和缓解 EPA 区域 1（新英格兰）和区域 2（纽约、新泽西、波多黎各、美属维尔京群岛和八个区域）的水 部落国家）和北卡罗来纳州。此外，我们将与研究经验和培训合作 协调核心（RETCC）教育和培训下一代科学家开展公民科学和 培养倡导环境正义和公平的技能。本提案中实施的举措 将转移到面临类似挑战的其他社区，包括新罕布什尔州，该州 将是 CEC 活动的第二个目标领域。我们还将与大家分享我们的发现和经验 北卡罗来纳州立大学超级基金中心正在与 YSRTP 的研究项目合作。 CEC 的总体目标是吸引、教育和赋权受影响社区的居民，以便 他们可以了解和告知公共卫生政策，并参与改善公共卫生。结果 这项合作努力将对纽约和纽约州人口的健康产生重大影响 汉普郡，帮助解决美国各地超级基金站点的类似挑战，并增强全球 努力监测、修复和确定水污染物的影响。