Core B: Community Engagement Core (CEC)

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- 北卡罗来纳州和温雅河基金会的清洁水-了解井用户的需求， 北卡罗来纳州的四个县与井水的无机砷（iAs）污染有关。总体 环境卫生委员会的目标是在井水污染的背景下促进环境卫生知识的普及。 利用所有合作者的优势，我们共同制定预防和干预战略， 减少饮用水中有毒金属的暴露。中央选举委员会通过三个目标实现其目标。一是 促进UNC-SRP调查人员与NC主要利益攸关方就SRP研究及其 通过召开公共卫生行动委员会，减少井水中iAs暴露的影响。这 委员会鼓励双向沟通，这将有助于发展响应环境 健康科学研究和社区问题解决战略。第二，我们加强对国际协定的了解 高风险社区的暴露，并鼓励将油井测试和过滤器部署作为当地战略， 防止或减少有害的暴露。与项目4的调查人员、CEC和社区合作伙伴合作 将确定高风险地区以及是否需要进行额外取样。我们将帮助居民了解 采样协议、结果、潜在的接触风险以及他们可以采取的减少接触的行动。项目5 也支持这些努力，部署新的过滤器。第三，我们要了解地方和国家的发展情况。 防止或减少私人饮用水威尔斯井中砷暴露的政策。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，并召集决策者讨论 所建议政策的影响。通过这些目标，中央选举委员会的活动与联合国的使命直接相关。 UNC-SRP并响应超级基金修正案和再授权法案（SARA）任务4， 推广减少有害物质数量和毒性的方法。双向 由于UNC-SRP研究人员与PHAC成员积极参与而产生的沟通， 社区合作伙伴培养创造性思维，为当地相关的解决方案提供信息，以应对所面临的挑战 有毒金属污染的井水在NC。

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.