Core C Community Engagement (CEC)

社区参与核心(CEC) 项目摘要 CEC的总体目标是积极与受影响地区的居民和其他利益攸关方接触 在教育、研究、预防和/或干预方面，以减少或减轻 慢性肺部疾病的有害物质暴露。CEC包括一个多学科团队， 在健康差距、社区参与研究、健康教育和促进以及预防方面的专门知识 医药。在以社区为基础的参与性研究(CBPR)原则指导下，CEC将重点关注 三个具体目标：(1)开发和实施可持续双向交流的基础设施 在受影响地区的居民和UAB之间建立合作努力的能力，以解决 环境健康问题；(2)确定和开发工具和资源，以帮助受 处理社区主导的优先事项，以减少接触危险物质和保护健康；以及(3) 实施循证预防/干预活动，以减少接触和保护儿童健康 受危险物质影响的居民。与我们的管理和研究机构携手合作 翻译核心，五个研究项目团队和其他核心，CEC将在我们中心的 通过帮助建立信任和促进成员之间的双向共同交流，开展研究活动 社区和研究团队。CEC还将为社区成员提供机会 提高他们对环境健康问题的认识，了解预防和补救策略 减少空气中重金属的暴露，并增加社区能力以支持协作 伙伴关系，以解决其社区的环境健康问题。在5年的项目期内，我们将 构建和维护学术与社区的伙伴关系基础设施，以支持 合作的可持续性，以改善社区健康和福祉，提高社区复原力 暴露在环境危害中。此外，我们还将设计、交付和评估 广泛的社区参与活动，旨在提高社区成员的健康素养，社会 凝聚力、降低空气中重金属暴露风险的自我效能感和研究知识 调查结果来源于我们的中心。

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE (CEC) Project Summary The overall goal of the CEC is to actively engage residents and other stakeholders of the affected area in education, research, and prevention and/or intervention to reduce or mitigate the impact of hazardous substance exposure on chronic lung disease. The CEC includes a multidisciplinary team with expertise in health disparities, community-engaged research, health education and promotion, and preventive medicine. Guided by the principles of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), the CEC will focus on three specific aims: (1) to develop and implement an infrastructure for sustainable bi-directional communication between residents of the affected area and UAB to build capacity for collaborative endeavors to address environmental health issues; (2) to identify and develop tools and resources to assist communities impacted by hazardous substances to address community-driven priorities to reduce exposure and protect health; and (3) to implement evidence-based prevention/intervention activities to reduce exposure and protect the health of residents impacted by hazardous substances. Working hand-in-hand with our Administration and Research Translation Core, five research project teams and other cores, the CEC will serve a vital role in our Center's research activities by helping to build trust and facilitate bi-directional co communication between members of the community and the research team. The CEC will also provide opportunities for community members to increase their knowledge about environmental health issues, learn about prevention and remediation strategies to reduce exposure to airborne heavy metals, and increase community capacity to support collaborative partnerships to address environmental health issues in their community. Over the 5 year project period, we will construct and maintain an academic-community partnership infrastructure to support the long-term sustainability of collaborations to improve community health and well-being and increase community resilience to exposure to environmental hazards. In addition, we will design, deliver, and evaluate the effectiveness of a wide range of community-engaged activities that seek to increase community members' health literacy, social cohesion, self-efficacy for reducing risk of airborne heavy metal exposure, and knowledge about research findings originating from our center.