Community Engagement and Dissemination Core

摘要-社区参与和传播核心 新墨西哥大学美洲原住民环境健康公平研究中心致力于解决新兴部落问题 与垃圾焚烧和倾倒有关的环境健康差异， 管理部落土地上固体废物的基础设施差异。社区参与和 传播核心（CEDC）利用学术和部落合作伙伴之间建立的关系 （夏延河苏族、克罗族和纳瓦霍族）支持部落环境卫生公平。的 CEDC扩大可持续的，文化知情的做法，以提高EH素养，增加部落EH研究 能力，促进社区参与EH研究，并实施多方向的转化 传播中心研究成果的战略。提高EH素养，促进参与研究 项目和建立部落EH研究能力，CEDC将定期举办特定地点的EH专题讨论会 以及正在进行的网络研讨会系列，涵盖将传统生态知识（TEK）纳入 研究过程;健康的环境、生物和社会决定因素;收集和质量控制 环境和调查数据。CEDC将寻求社区的合作，以1）完善战略 支持环境采样（例如，确定垃圾焚烧活动的地点和频率， 监测环境介质中的微塑料和化学品暴露），并为 调查，2）确定和支持研究联络，3）确定和支持有前途的试点项目主题， 社区合作者。为了回应社区的关切和缺乏数据，对社会压力因素进行了调查， 在所有部落社区中，将复原力和复原力因素作为CEDC活动。也是为了响应社区 需要，实施有针对性的环境健康和毒理学扫盲教育计划， 在CEDC继续。专门从部落社区雇用的社区研究联络员将 了解环境接触源和基于当地TEK的途径，以及跨代 关于健康和复原力的观点。联络员将协助收集环境样本 包括作为公民科学家放置和收集固定腕带和植物样本。他们将 开展外联活动，收集调查数据，并支持研究成果的传播。传统生态知识 (TEK)土著人的认识方式影响参与研究的决定，特别是 涉及收集对社区其他人有影响的信息的项目。以促进 与TEK/IWK的联系，我们的驻场艺术家将继续开发艺术作品（如绘画），以翻译 该中心的复杂的科学研究目标和结果，部落社区使用传统的 通过本土象征、讲故事和其他跨代意象传递信息。

SUMMARY-COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT and DISSEMENATION CORE The UNM Center for Native American Environmental Health Equity Research addresses emerging tribal environmental health disparities associated with trash burning and dumping, resulting from insufficient infrastructure disparities to manage solid waste on tribal lands. The Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (CEDC) leverages established relationships among academic and tribal partners (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Crow and Navajo Nations) in support of tribal environmental health equity. The CEDC expands sustainable, culturally-informed practices to enhance EH literacy, increase tribal EH research capacity, foster community engagement in EH research, and implement multi-directional translational strategies for disseminating the Center’s research. To enhance EH literacy, foster engagement in research projects and build tribal EH research capacity, the CEDC will conduct regular location-specific EH symposia and an ongoing webinar series covering such topics as incorporating traditional ecologic knowledge (TEK) into the research process; environmental, biological and social determinants of health; collection and quality control of environmental and survey data. The CEDC will seek collaboration from the community to 1) refine strategies to support environmental sampling (e.g. identifying locations and frequency of trash burning activities for monitoring micro-plastics and chemical exposures in environmental media), and participant recruitment for surveys, 2) identify and support research liaisons, and 3) identify and support promising pilot project topics and community collaborators. In response to community concerns, and lack of data, a survey of social stressors and resilience factors is included as a CEDC activity in all tribal communities. Also in response to community needs, implementation of a targeted environmental health and toxicology literacy education program will be continued in the CEDC. Community research liaisons, hired exclusively from tribal communities, will understand of environmental exposure sources and pathways based on local TEK, and transgenerational perspectives on health and resiliency. The liaisons will assist with collection of environmental samples including placement and collection of stationary wristbands and plant samples as citizen scientists. They will conduct outreach, collect survey data and support research dissemination. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)/Indigenous Way of Knowing (IWK) influence decisions regarding participation in research, especially projects that involve the collection of information that has implications for others in the community. To facilitate the linkage with TEK/IWK, our artist-in-residence will continue to develop art pieces (e.g. paintings) to translate the Center’s complex scientific research objectives and findings to tribal communities using traditional messaging relayed through native symbolism, storytelling, and other transgenerational imagery.