Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心

• 批准号: 10610209
• 负责人: Paloma I Beamer
• 金额: $ 23.03万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-04-01 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10610209
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The Community Engagement Core (CEC) within the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC) is integral to developing and maintaining the relationships that allow SWEHSC to meet its mission of determining the human health impacts of environmental exposures among underserved populations in arid environments experiencing climate change. The CEC addresses structural environmental inequalities by facilitating multidirectional and culturally-anchored engagement between SWEHSC researchers, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and Southwestern educators, public health professionals, community members, and policy makers. The SWEHSC is in the arid Southwest, a region that is home to high proportions of Indigenous, Latinx, and rural communities living in understudied environmental conditions that include exposures to unique toxicants. Primary health concerns in these communities include cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, reproductive disorders, and respiratory disease that can result from exposures to extreme heat, airborne pollutants, pesticides, forest fire smoke, dust storms, and drinking water contaminants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and arsenic. The CEC vision is to combine respect for Indigenous science, traditional ecological knowledge, “funds of knowledge,” and citizen observation/inquiry with modern scientific advances to engage Indigenous, Latinx, and rural communities and to design materials and programs to work towards environmental justice for these communities. The CEC applies this vision through four aims: 1) using multi-directional communication strategies to assure that SWEHSC investigators address the environmental health (EH) issues of greatest concern impacting our target communities; 2) ensuring the dissemination of key research findings to our target communities so that they may better protect their health; 3) evaluating the effectiveness of our risk and safety communication and report-back strategies to ensure that these communications effectively promote public health; and 4) assuring self-determination by training the next generation of EH scientists from these communities. In realizing these aims, the CEC equips the next generation of EH scientists with the necessary engagement skills and scientific knowledge to address structural environmental inequalities affecting the desert Southwest populations and to achieve sustainable EH justice.

西南环境健康科学中心的社区参与核心(CEC) (SWEHSC)对于发展和维护使SWEHSC能够完成其使命的关系是不可或缺的 在干旱地区服务不足的人群中确定环境暴露对人类健康的影响 经历气候变化的环境。CEC通过以下方式解决结构性环境不平等问题 促进SWEHSC研究人员之间的多方向和基于文化的接触，国家 环境健康科学研究所和西南教育工作者、公共卫生专业人员、社区 成员和政策制定者。SWEHSC位于干旱的西南部，该地区的人口比例很高 土著、拉丁裔和农村社区生活在研究不足的环境条件下，包括 暴露在独特的毒物中。这些社区的主要健康问题包括癌症、糖尿病、 自身免疫性疾病、生殖障碍和极端暴露可能导致的呼吸系统疾病 高温、空气污染物、杀虫剂、森林火灾烟雾、沙尘暴和饮用水污染物，如 全氟烷基和多氟烷基物质和砷。CEC的愿景是结合对本土科学的尊重， 传统生态知识、“知识基金”和现代科学的公民观察/询问 促进土著、拉丁裔和农村社区的参与，并设计材料和方案 为这些社区争取环境正义。CEC通过四个目标实施这一愿景：1)使用 多方向沟通战略，确保SWEHSC调查人员解决环境问题 影响我们目标社区的最令人关切的卫生(EH)问题；2)确保传播关键信息 将研究结果提供给我们的目标社区，以便他们可以更好地保护自己的健康；3)评估 我们的风险和安全沟通和报告策略的有效性，以确保这些 沟通有效地促进公共健康；以及4)通过培训下一代来确保自决 来自这些社区的一代EH科学家。为了实现这些目标，CEC为下一代 EH科学家具有必要的参与技能和科学知识来解决结构问题 环境不平等影响到西南沙漠人口，并实现可持续的环境正义。