Develop and Evaluate a Targeted Education Campaign in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx to Protect West African, South Asian, and Latinx Populations from Hazardous Skin Lightening Products.

项目总结(30行文)： 拟议的项目旨在开发以证据为基础的教育材料，并针对特定的文化 传播战略，以提高对皮肤美白的使用和潜在风险的认识 在易受伤害和服务不足的社区中提供产品。我们的建议与FDA的使命有关 保护公众健康和确保化妆品安全，并向FDA少数民族健康办公室 和健康公平(OMHHE)致力于通过以下方式促进和保护不同人群的健康 研究和传播解决健康差距的科学。该项目将开发和测试一种 年以南亚、西非和拉丁裔人口为目标的社区教育干预 曼哈顿北部和南布朗克斯。它将旨在提高人们对以下方面的认识：(1)健康风险 对苯二酚、汞和其他常见于皮肤美白剂中的物质；(2)上游社会和 皮肤美白使用的文化驱动因素，包括色彩主义；(3)个人和集体行动战略，以 避免接触有毒物质，确保美容产品更安全。教育干预的目的和目的 随后的评估与FOA的目标一致，目的是：(1)更好地了解公众的看法 关于皮肤美白产品，通过与CBO的讨论和参与者调查，(2)确定并提供 在阅读标签方面，个人作出明智决定和/或采取行动所需的信息， 避免危险产品，并向包括FDA在内的当局报告违禁产品，(3)并开发 传播的关键信息，尽管开发了适合文化的教育模块。 我们的核心团队和合作伙伴，拥有数十年与弱势群体和 在有毒暴露和有毒化妆品(包括皮肤美白剂)问题上服务不足的社区是 非常适合与社区接触，并开发、评估和随后改进消息传递 专为保护女性免受有毒皮肤美白产品的伤害而设计。我们将通过以下途径实现这些目标 目标如下：(1)开发一个基于WE ACT现有格式的教育模块 环境健康和司法领导力培训计划(EHJLT)，旨在为社区提供 具有识别和避免违禁皮肤美白产品以及采取行动的策略的成员 报告它们；(2)编制培训教员指南，以补充EHJLT模块，并开展 与三个选定社区小组的工作人员一起培训培训员流程，这些社区小组服务于南亚、西亚 曼哈顿北部和南布朗克斯的非洲和拉丁裔人口(资料已翻译 适用于所有三个小组)；(3)通过新培训的CBO工作人员向约20名人员提供模块 参与者来自每个国会预算办公室的基层选区(共60名参与者)；(4)评估 干预措施的有效性；(5)根据参与者的反馈修改干预措施；以及 通过WE ACT网站上的报告和专用登录页面传播该模块和我们的调查结果。

Project Summary (30 lines of text): The proposed project seeks to develop evidence-based education materials and culturally-specific dissemination strategies in order to increase awareness on the use of and potential risks from skin lightening products among vulnerable and underserved communities. Our proposal is relevant to the FDA’s mission of protecting public health and ensuring the safety of cosmetic products, and to the FDA Office of Minority Health and Health Equity’s (OMHHE) commitment to promote and protect the health of diverse populations through research and communication of science that addresses health disparities. The project will develop and test a community-based educational intervention targeting South Asian, West African and Latinx populations in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx. It will be designed to increase awareness about: (1) health risks of hydroquinone, mercury, and other substances commonly found in skin lighteners; (2) upstream social and cultural drivers of skin lightening use, including colorism; (3) strategies for individual and collective action to avoid toxic exposures and ensure safer beauty products. The aims of the educational intervention and subsequent evaluation are consistent with the aims of the FOA, to: (1) better understand public perceptions about skin lightening products, through discussions with CBOs and participant surveys, (2) identify and provide information needed for individuals to make informed decisions and/or take action, in terms of reading labels, avoiding dangerous products, and reporting banned products to authorities including the FDA, (3) and develop key messages for communications, though the development of a culturally appropriate educational module. Our core team and partners, with decades of combined experience engaging with disadvantaged and underserved communities on issues of toxic exposures and toxic cosmetics, including skin lighteners, are well-suited to engage with communities and to develop, evaluate, and subsequently refine messaging designed to inform and protect women from toxic skin lightening products. We will achieve these aims through the following Aims: (1) Develop an educational module, based on the format of WE ACT’s existing Environmental Health and Justice Leadership Training program (EHJLT), designed to provide community members with strategies to recognize banned skin lightener products and avoid them as well as to take action to report them; (2) Develop a train-the-trainer guide to supplement the EHJLT module, and conduct a train-the-trainer process with staff members at three selected community groups serving South Asian, West African and Latinx populations in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx (with materials translated appropriately for all three groups); (3) Deliver the module via the newly trained CBO staff to about 20 participants drawn from each CBO’s grassroots constituency (60 participants total); (4) Evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention; (5) Revise the intervention in response to participant feedback, and disseminate the module and our findings via a report and a dedicated landing page on the WE ACT website.