Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心

• 批准号: 10707471
• 负责人: Galen Newman
• 金额: $ 10.97万
• 依托单位: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-20 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10707471
• 关键词: Acute; Address; Adverse event; Advocacy; Air; Area; Behavior; Biological; Chemicals; Communication; Communities; Community Health; Coupled; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Data Set; Detection; Development; Disasters; Educational workshop; Emergency Situation; Environmental Hazards; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollution; Environmental Risk Factor; Evaluation; Event; Evidence based intervention; Exposure to; Face; Faculty; Fire - disasters; Floods; Fostering; Future; Generations; Geographic Information Systems; Growth; Hazard Identification; Hazardous Chemicals; Hazardous Substances; Health; Human; Hurricane; Inequity; Infrastructure; Inhalation; Intervention; Knowledge; Link; Methods; Modeling; Natural Disasters; Neighborhoods; Outcome; Play; Policies; Politics; Pollution; Prevention; Prevention strategy; Public Participation; Regulation; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Risk Assessment; Role; Sampling; Schools; Science; Services; Soil; Students; Superfund; Testing; Texas; Toxic effect; Training; Translating; Translational Research; Translations; Trust; Universities; Water; Work; anthropogenesis; chemical disaster; chemical incident; chemical spill; citizen science; community based research; community center; community engaged research; community engagement; community involvement; community organizations; crowdsourcing; data management; environmental justice; evidence base; experience; hazard; high school; improved; learning community; man; member; multidisciplinary; promote resilience; resilience; response; science education; social; social vulnerability; tool; toxicant

Community Engagement Core (CEC) ABSTRACT The residents of communities located along the Galveston Bay/Houston Ship Channel (GB/HSC) region have been shown to have excess risk of exposures to hazardous substances as a result of various environmental and anthropogenic disasters. In addition to the physical and environmental vulnerabilities, many of the residents of these communities are also socially vulnerable. Community engagement can provide a link between the adaptive capacities of a community—the human, financial, political, and social resources that enable proactive behavior and the combined strength of local plans and policies—and its responses and changes after disasters. An engaged community has greater resilience and is better able to anticipate future threats and prepare for and recover from adverse events. The Texas A&M University Superfund Research Center is focused on development, application, and translation of a comprehensive set of tools and models that will aid in mitigating the human health consequences of exposures to hazardous substances during environmental emergency- related contamination events. Accordingly, the Community Engagement Core (CEC) will develop, test and implement a set of data-driven community engagement projects focused on fostering local resilience through disaster research response activities. Work in the CEC will be based on locally-driven needs and grounded in exposure science and multidisciplinary environmental health research. The CEC is working in close partnership with a large number of local organizations, planners, other stakeholders, and residents. Specifically, we will pursue four community engagement aims: 1) Engage community members to determine the factors that influence and can improve environmental conditions for communities to proactively plan and manage future environmental risk related to emergency contamination; 2) Develop collaborative, participatory-based interventions aimed at reducing exposure during environmental emergencies; 3) Develop and implement citizen science tools for community engagement to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances; and 4) Build long-term resilience in the communities by creating capacity for detection, assessment, and evaluation of the human health concerns from hazardous substances. The activities proposed under each Aim are aligned with existing, and well-documented, stakeholder priorities and build on prior work done with community partners. Further, the prevention/intervention activities in the CEC specifically support Superfund’s fourth mandate which includes "basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances” through the development of evidence-based strategies and an emphasis on neighborhood-scaled green infrastructure provisions to increase resilience and mitigate hazard and contamination impacts. The CEC will involve community partners in the entire cycle of activities, from study design, to data collection, developing resilience strategies, communication of the findings to all stakeholders, and assistance with implementation.

社区参与核心 (CEC) 摘要 位于加尔维斯顿湾/休斯顿航道 (GB/HSC) 地区的社区居民 已被证明由于各种环境和因素而具有过度接触有害物质的风险 人为灾害。除了物理和环境的脆弱性之外，许多居民 这些社区在社会上也很脆弱。社区参与可以在适应性之间提供联系 社区的能力——促成积极行为的人力、财力、政治和社会资源 以及当地计划和政策的综合实力及其在灾后的反应和变化。一个 积极参与的社区具有更大的弹性，能够更好地预测未来的威胁并做好准备和应对 从不良事件中恢复。德克萨斯农工大学超级基金研究中心专注于 开发、应用和翻译一套全面的工具和模型，这将有助于缓解 环境紧急情况期间接触有害物质对人类健康的影响 相关污染事件。因此，社区参与核心 (CEC) 将开发、测试和 实施一系列数据驱动的社区参与项目，重点是通过以下方式增强当地的复原力 灾害研究响应活动。 CEC 的工作将基于本地需求并立足于 暴露科学和多学科环境健康研究。 CEC 正在密切合作 与大量当地组织、规划者、其他利益相关者和居民合作。具体来说，我们将 追求四个社区参与目标： 1) 让社区成员参与进来，确定影响社区参与的因素 影响并可以改善社区的环境条件，以主动规划和管理未来 与紧急污染相关的环境风险； 2) 发展协作性、参与性 旨在减少环境紧急情况期间接触的干预措施； 3) 制定并实施公民 社区参与减少危险物质数量和毒性的科学工具；和 4) 通过建立检测、评估和评估能力来建立社区的长期复原力 有害物质对人类健康的影响。每个目标下提议的活动都是一致的 与现有的、有据可查的利益相关者优先事项相结合，并以先前与社区合作伙伴所做的工作为基础。 此外，CEC 的预防/干预活动特别支持超级基金的第四项任务，即 包括“减少有害物质的数量和毒性的基本生物、化学和物理方法 通过制定基于证据的战略并强调邻里规模的物质” 提供绿色基础设施，以提高抵御能力并减轻危害和污染影响。中委会 将让社区合作伙伴参与整个活动周期，从研究设计到数据收集、开发 复原力战略、向所有利益相关者传达调查结果以及协助实施。