Environmental Monitoring and Interpretation Fac/Ser Core (FSC)

环境监测和解释核心-摘要 欧共体将以多种方式为我们的伙伴部落社区和中心的其他项目服务。欧共体 将确定和量化的规模和分布浓度的混合金属在环境中 通过归宿、运输和扩散模型和测量，以及部落居民的尿样， 人口。 欧盟委员会的具体目标是提供以下服务，以支持土著EH权益中心：1） 描述部落土地上饮用水源中金属浓度的空间分布特征; 2） 量化传统和文化习俗造成的金属环境暴露; 3）评估 通过生物监测与环境数据联系起来;以及4）确定主要的 关注改善卫生公平。这些产出将提供具有社区代表性的 我们的三个部落社区的合作伙伴，并将应用于DNA修复的动物研究，和人口- 基于免疫功能的关联研究（研究项目，RP 1和RP 2）。协同 行政核心是确保中心的整合和整体重点将保持的核心 回应社区的关注和需求。与社区参与核心的合作将 确保将所有项目的调查结果传达给社区，以便采取行动， 降低风险。该中心提供了一个机会，可以将所有项目的研究结果转化为 旨在使服务不足的部落社区受益，目标是加强卫生公平。

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND INTERPRETATION CORE - SUMMARY The EC will serve our partner tribal communities and other projects of the Center in numerous ways. The EC will identify and quantify the magnitude and distribution concentrations of a mixture of metals in environmental media through fate, transport and dispersion models and measurements, and in urine samples for tribal populations. The Specific Aims of the EC provide the following services in support of Native EH Equity Center: 1) Characterize the spatial distribution of metal concentrations in drinking water sources on tribal lands; 2) Quantify environmental exposures to metals resulting from traditional and cultural practices; 3) Assess exposures to metals through biomonitoring to link with environmental data; and 4) Identify pathways of primary concern to improve health equity. These outputs will provide community-representative exposure estimates for our three tribal community partners, and will be applied in the animal studies of DNA repair, and population- based association studies of immune function (Research Projects, RP1 and RP2). Coordination with the Administrative Core is central to ensuring that the integration and overall focus of the Center will remain responsive to community concerns and needs. Collaboration with the Community Engagement Core will ensure that findings obtained in all projects will be communicated to the communities to inform actions to mitigate risk. The Center offers an opportunity to translate the findings from all projects in ways that are designed to benefit underserved tribal communities with the goal of enhancing health equity.