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.

项目摘要（30行文本）： 拟议的项目旨在制定以证据为基础的教育材料， 传播战略，以提高对美白皮肤的使用和潜在风险的认识 在脆弱和服务不足的社区中推广产品。我们的建议与FDA的使命有关， 保护公众健康和确保化妆品的安全，以及FDA少数民族健康办公室 和健康公平（OMHHE）的承诺，以促进和保护不同人群的健康， 研究和传播科学，解决健康差距问题。该项目将开发和测试一个 针对南亚、西非和拉丁美洲人口的社区教育干预措施， 北方曼哈顿和南方布朗克斯。它的目的是提高人们对以下问题的认识：（1） 对苯二酚、汞和其他常见于美白剂中的物质;（2）上游社会和 美白使用的文化驱动因素，包括肤色歧视;（3）个人和集体行动的策略， 避免接触有毒物质，确保使用更安全的美容产品。教育干预的目的， 随后的评估与FOA的目标一致，即：（1）更好地了解公众的看法 关于美白产品，通过与社区组织的讨论和参与者调查，（2）确定并提供 个人做出知情决策和/或采取行动所需的信息，包括阅读标签， 避免危险产品，并向包括FDA在内的当局报告禁用产品，（3）并制定 通过制定文化上适当的教育模块，传播关键信息。 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， 非常适合与社区互动，开发、评估并随后完善信息传递 旨在告知和保护妇女免受有毒皮肤美白产品的侵害。我们会透过以下措施达致这些目标： （1）根据WE ACT现有的格式开发教育模块 环境健康和司法领导培训计划（EHJLT），旨在为社区提供 会员们有策略来识别被禁止的亮肤产品，避免使用它们，并采取行动 （2）制定培训师培训指南，以补充EHJLT模块，并进行 在三个选定的社区团体为南亚、西亚、 北方曼哈顿和南方布朗克斯的非洲人和拉丁裔人口（资料翻译 （3）通过新培训的CBO工作人员向大约20名 从每个CBO的基层选区抽取的参与者（总共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 通过报告和WE ACT网站上的专用登陆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.