Community Outreach and Education Core

社区外展和教育核心

• 批准号: 8091649
• 负责人: Kathleen Mead Vandiver
• 金额: $ 18.91万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8091649
• 关键词: Adult; Age; Area; Awareness; Biological Sciences; Breathing; Cell physiology; Communities; Community Health Education; Community Outreach; Continuing Education; Decision Making; Development; Disease; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Environment; Environmental Health; Exhibits; Exposure to; Funding; Health; Health Professional; Knowledge; Laboratories; Leadership; Learning; Life; Methodology; Mission; Museums; Philosophy; Process; Risk; Science; Students; Training Programs; Youth; empowered; experience; improved; innovation; interest; member; novel; outreach; prevent; programs; research study; teacher; tool

The primary mission of MIT's COEC program is to raise awareness and understanding of the impact of the environment on health. Awareness is the first step toward change, and therefore through educational outreach, we aim to empower cifizens to prevent environmentally induced diseases by providing them with knowledge to help inform wise choices. While COEC acfivifies reach people of all ages, it is the philosophy of this COEC to focus upon youth, a crifical at-risk portion of our community who can benefit tremendously from knowledge that will help them make better life choices. Furthermore, understanding environmental health and understanding the fundamentals of life sciences go hand-in-hand, thus providing the dual benefit of informed decision-making, and inspiration in science. Therefore, MIT COEC proposes to continue with its emphasis on youth, while at the same fime extending programmatic opportunities to teachers and health care professionals, who are best poised to disseminate valuable environmental health informafion to the community. This COEC group continues to be innovative both in terms of the conceptual materials covered, but also in terms of the pedagogical tools. Through the development of novel hands-on programs, hundreds of students have become Involved in the learning process, and thus receptive to important concepts about the environment and its impact on their health. In addifion, this past cycle, COEC reached out not only to students, but also to thousands of community members of all ages, through a variety of media, including participatory workshops, museum exhibifions, training programs, laboratory experiments, and professional videos. In close alignment with the core interests of the Center, and under strong leadership to streamline the program and opfimize its direcfion, COEC has successfully improved the public understanding of the impact of the environment on health, by connecfing the impact of exposures to basic cellular processes. The specific aims for this next funding period are thus focused on activities that will continue to teach fundamental concepts in environmental health to community members of all ages, with emphasis on to students, teachers, health care professionals.

麻省理工学院COEC项目的主要使命是提高人们对环境对健康影响的认识和理解。意识是改变的第一步，因此，通过教育推广，我们的目标是通过向公民提供知识，帮助他们做出明智的选择，使他们能够预防环境引起的疾病。虽然COEC实现了覆盖所有年龄段的人，但COEC的理念是关注青年，这是我们社区中处于危险中的关键部分，他们可以从帮助他们做出更好生活选择的知识中受益匪浅。此外，了解环境健康和了解生命科学的基本原理是相辅相成的，从而提供了知情决策的双重好处， 和灵感。 因此，麻省理工学院COEC建议继续重视青年，同时将方案机会扩大到教师和卫生保健专业人员，他们最有可能向社区传播有价值的环境健康信息。 COEC小组继续在所涵盖的概念材料和教学工具方面进行创新。通过开发新的实践项目，数百名学生参与了学习过程，从而接受了有关环境及其对健康影响的重要概念。此外，在过去的一个周期里，COEC不仅接触了学生，而且还接触了 通过各种媒体，包括参与性讲习班、博物馆展览、培训方案、实验室实验和专业视频，为数千名各年龄段的社区成员提供服务。 在与中心的核心利益紧密结合，并在强有力的领导下，简化计划并优化其方向，COEC通过将暴露的影响与基本细胞过程联系起来，成功地提高了公众对环境对健康影响的理解。因此，下一个供资期的具体目标将侧重于继续向所有年龄的社区成员传授环境卫生基本概念的活动，重点是学生、教师和保健专业人员。