Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心 总结/摘要 社区参与核心（CEC）将与目标社区建立双向伙伴关系， 了解环境中新出现的水污染物（特别是1，4- 二氧六环（1，4-DX）），并提供干预战略，将改善公共卫生和宣传卫生政策。 在该项目的第一阶段，CEC将重点关注朗的拿骚和萨福克县的社区 岛，纽约。这些社区包括公共饮用水威尔斯井受到影响的居民， 附近的EPA超级基金网站。CEC将与研究翻译协调员（行政部门）合作， 核心）开发可复制的工具和资源，为利益攸关方提供数据和知识 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，将风险信息传达给每个利益相关者 这一群体包括邻近这些地点的经济弱势和环境正义社区。 饮用水中出现污染物的幽灵充满了风险和适当的不确定性。 这造成了一种混乱、指责、焦虑，最重要的是不信任的气氛。中央选举委员会 将通过促进不同国家之间的接触和信息交流来应对这些挑战， 在纽约的相关选区。我们将为包括联邦、州 和地方政府机构，相互学习和分享信息。鼓励和 促进社区和专家之间的多方向互动，以补充和支持耶鲁大学 超级基金研究和培训计划（YSRTP）的首要目标是促进研究， 改善暴露评估、健康评估和减少饮用水中新出现的污染物 EPA第1区（新英格兰）和第2区（纽约、新泽西、波多黎各、美属维尔京群岛和八个 部落民族）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），以教育和培训下一代科学家进行公民科学和 发展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， 将是CEC活动的第二个目标领域。我们亦会与 北卡罗来纳州州立大学超级基金中心，该中心正在与YSRTP的研究项目合作。 CEC的总体目标是让受影响社区的居民参与，教育和赋权， 他们可以了解公共卫生政策并提供信息，参与改善公共卫生。结果 这一合作努力将对纽约和纽约的人类健康产生重大影响。 汉普郡，帮助解决类似的挑战，在超级基金网站在美国各地，和加强全球 努力监测、补救和确定水污染物的影响。

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.