Community Engagement Core (CEC)

摘要 社区参与核心(CEC)支持北卡罗来纳大学环境健康中心的主题 敏感性(CEHS)，将环境健康敏感性的跨学科研究转化为 改善北卡罗来纳州的公共卫生。社区参与核心(CEC)在UNC中的工作- 教堂山环境健康和敏感性中心(CEHS)立足于该中心的研究重点， 而且CEC的影响范围广泛地延伸到全州，并深入到北卡罗来纳州的公共社区 卫生和教育专业人员。CEC优先与公共卫生专业人员和 我们州最弱势群体的教育者，比如少数族裔和低收入人群， 因为这些人群往往更容易出现CEHS和CEHS研究的不良健康后果 往往会有更严重的健康后果。CEC的目标是增进公众对 开展环境健康科学研究，培养公众环境健康素养 专业人员和中学科学与健康教师，提高对环境健康问题的认识 并促进知情决策，减少家庭和环境中的有害环境暴露 社区。我们通过四个目标实现这一目标：(1)促进CEHS成员之间的对话，并 社区合作伙伴为环境健康科学研究的发展提供信息，以响应 社区关注的问题；(2)加强公共卫生从业人员参与弱势群体的能力 和其他居民就当地相关的环境健康问题进行培训；(3) 加强中学科学和健康教育工作者的能力，使青少年参与有意义和 促进将尖端研究纳入教学的社会背景教育；以及(4) 促进CEHS调查人员和受训人员之间的科学交流技能的发展。CEC是 CEHS的一个重要组成部分，因为它将CEHS调查人员与社区合作伙伴联系起来，促进 多方向沟通和确保与国家的广泛相关性，这两项都对 达到CEHS的翻译目标。

ABSTRACT The Community Engagement Core (CEC) supports the theme of the UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS), translating interdisciplinary research on environmental health susceptibility to improve public health in North Carolina. The work of the Community Engagement Core (CEC) in the UNC- Chapel Hill Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) is grounded in the Center's research foci, and the CEC's reach extends broadly across the state and deeply into North Carolina's communities of public health and education professionals. The CEC prioritizes partnering with public health professionals and educators who engage our state's most vulnerable populations, such as minority and low-income populations, because these populations tend to be more at-risk of the adverse health outcomes being studied in CEHS and tend to have more serious health outcomes. The goal of the CEC is to enhance public understanding of environmental health sciences research and foster environmental health literacy among public health professionals and secondary science and health teachers, raising awareness of environmental health issues and facilitating informed decision making that reduces harmful environmental exposures in homes and communities. We accomplish this goal through four aims: (1) To foster dialogue among CEHS members and community partners to inform development of environmental health sciences research that is responsive to community concerns; (2) To enhance the capacity of public health practitioners to engage vulnerable populations and other residents on locally relevant environmental health issues using a train-the-trainer approach; (3) To enhance the capacity of secondary science and health educators to engage adolescents in meaningful and socially contextualized education by facilitating incorporation of cutting-edge research into instruction; and (4) To facilitate development of science communication skills among CEHS investigators and trainees. The CEC is a vital element of the CEHS as it connects CEHS investigators with community partners, facilitating multidirectional communication and ensuring broad relevance to the State, both of which are critical to meeting the translational goals of the CEHS.