Core B: Community Engagement Core (CEC)

核心 B：社区参与核心 (CEC)

• 批准号: 10570843
• 负责人: Kathleen M Gray
• 金额: $ 13.53万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-20 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10570843
• 关键词: Address; Advocate; Amendment; Area; Arsenic; Authorization documentation; Award; Back; Collaborations; Committee Members; Communication; Communities; County; Creativeness; Decision Making; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Excision; Exposure to; Filtration; Fostering; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Hazardous Substances; Health; Industrialization; Intervention; Leadership; Location; Metabolic dysfunction; Methods; Mission; Needs Assessment; North Carolina; Persons; Policies; Population; Populations at Risk; Positioning Attribute; Prevention strategy; Privatization; Problem Solving; Protocols documentation; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Rivers; Sampling; Scholarship; Signal Recognition Particle; Source; Superfund; Testing; Thinking; Toxic effect; Universities; Vision; Vulnerable Populations; Water; Work; authority; coal ash; community building; community engaged research; community engagement; community organizations; contaminated water; disorder prevention; drinking water; effective therapy; empowerment; environmental justice; experience; health communication; health literacy; health science research; high risk; interest; member; novel; policy recommendation; prevent; programs; public health relevance; residence; toxic metal; translational research program; water quality; well water

ABSTRACT: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE The UNC-SRP Community Engagement Core (CEC) collaborates with two community-serving organizations— Clean Water for North Carolina and the Winyah Rivers Foundation—to understand the needs of well users in four North Carolina counties related to inorganic arsenic (iAs) contamination of well water. The overarching goal of the CEC is to foster environmental health literacy in the context of well water contamination. Drawing on the strengths of all collaborators, we jointly develop prevention and intervention strategies that reduce exposure to toxic metals in drinking water. The CEC accomplishes its goal through three aims. First, we facilitate dialogue among UNC-SRP investigators and key NC stakeholders about SRP research and its implications for reducing exposure to iAs in well water by convening a Public Health Action Committee. This committee stimulates bi-directional communication that will inform the development of responsive environmental health sciences research and community problem-solving strategies. Second, we enhance understanding of iAs exposures in high-risk communities and encourage well testing and filter deployment as local strategies to prevent or reduce harmful exposures. Working with investigators in Project 4, the CEC and community partners will identify high-risk areas as well as the need for additional sampling. We will assist residents in understanding sampling protocols, results, potential risks of exposure, and actions they can take to reduce exposure. Project 5 also supports these efforts, with deployment of novel filters. Third, we inform the development of local and state policies that prevent or reduce iAs exposure in private wells used for drinking water. Working with policy experts, including staff of the Center for Environmental Health, and the UNC-SRP Research Translation Coordinator, we will identify policy options for reducing iAs exposure in well water and convene decision makers to discuss implications of recommended policies. Through these aims, CEC activities are directly relevant to the mission of the UNC-SRP and are responsive to the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Mandate 4, promoting methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances. The bi-directional communication resulting from active engagement of the UNC-SRP researchers with PHAC members and community partners fosters creative thinking that will inform locally-relevant solutions to the challenges posed by toxic metals contamination of well water in NC.

摘要：社区参与核心 UNC-SRP 社区参与核心 (CEC) 与两个社区服务组织合作—— 北卡罗来纳州清洁水和 Winyah 河流基金会 — 了解北卡罗来纳州水井用户的需求 北卡罗来纳州四个县与井水无机砷 (iAs) 污染有关。首要的 CEC 的目标是在井水污染的背景下提高环境健康素养。 借助所有合作者的优势，我们共同制定预防和干预策略， 减少饮用水中有毒金属的暴露。 CEC 通过三个目标来实现其目标。首先，我们 促进 UNC-SRP 研究人员和 NC 主要利益相关者之间关于 SRP 研究及其相关问题的对话 通过召开公共卫生行动委员会来减少井水中的无机砷暴露的影响。这 委员会促进双向沟通，为响应性环境的发展提供信息 健康科学研究和社区问题解决策略。二、加强对iAs的理解 暴露在高风险社区，并鼓励试井和过滤器部署作为当地策略 预防或减少有害暴露。与项目 4 的调查人员、CEC 和社区合作伙伴合作 将确定高风险区域以及是否需要额外采样。我们将协助居民了解 采样方案、结果、潜在的暴露风险以及他们可以采取的减少暴露的行动。项目5 还通过部署新颖的过滤器来支持这些努力。第三，我们为地方和州的发展提供信息 防止或减少用于饮用水的私人水井中无机砷暴露的政策。与政策专家合作， 包括环境健康中心的工作人员和 UNC-SRP 研究翻译协调员，我们 将确定减少井水中 IAs 暴露的政策选择，并召集决策者进行讨论 建议政策的影响。通过这些目标，CEC 的活动与 CEC 的使命直接相关。 UNC-SRP 并响应超级基金修正案和重新授权法 (SARA) 授权 4， 推广减少有害物质的数量和毒性的方法。双向的 UNC-SRP 研究人员与 PHAC 成员的积极参与所产生的沟通， 社区合作伙伴培养创造性思维，为应对所面临的挑战提供与当地相关的解决方案 北卡罗来纳州井水有毒金属污染。