Community Outreach Education and Engagement Core

社区外展教育和参与核心：项目摘要/摘要 社区外展教育和参与核心(COE2C)支持双向交流 在核心中心和社区团体之间。COE2C倾听并回应我们的社区 对环境健康感到担忧。它将这些担忧传达给我们的内部研究人员， 目的是为他们的工作提供信息，并创建一个科学家与社区对话的平台。我们的一个社区 是由缅因州的美国土著部落组成的，他们向我们伸出援手，参与到空气和水的问题上来 关于污染以及涉及如何以文化敏感的方式解释环境的基础的问题 将疾病传染给他们的成员。第二个社区由#年神秘河流域的22个城镇组成 马萨诸塞州。这些社区，其中一些是环境正义(EJ)社区，是 担心几个世纪以来工业活动造成的水污染。与CEHS的双向对话， 在COE2C的催化下，为社区提供了与科学专业知识的重要联系，以提供建议 向社区成员表达他们的关切。此外，COE2C将继续与医疗保健合作 专业人员优化一个创新的基因环境工具包，向这一目标受众传播。在 在之前的竞争周期中，护士群体向我们求助，要求提供这样的工具。最后，在资金方面 独立于NIEHS P30计划，COE2C已经创建并将继续开发其他 与研究成员合作开设环境健康课程；我们计划传播这些材料 在本地和全球范围内。COE2C董事是凯瑟琳·范迪弗博士，她是 CEHS。她将负责召开社区利益攸关方咨询委员会(SAB)会议 并与社区、合作伙伴组织和所有研究保持多方向互动 该委员会的成员。

COMMUNITY OUTREACH EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT CORE: PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Community Outreach Education and Engagement Core (COE2C) enables two-way communication between the Core Center and community groups. The COE2C listens and responds to our communities who have concerns about environmental health. It communicates those concerns to our internal researchers, with the goal of informing their work and creating a platform for scientist-community dialog. One of our communities is composed of Native American Tribes in Maine who reached out to us to engage on issues of air and water pollution, as well as on issues involving how to explain, in a culturally sensitive way, the basis of environmental disease to their members. A second community is composed of the 22 towns in the Mystic River watershed in Massachusetts. These communities, some of which are environmental justice (EJ) communities, are concerned about water contamination from centuries of industrial activity. The two-way dialog with the CEHS, catalyzed by the COE2C, provides communities with important connections to scientific expertise to advise community members about their concerns. Additionally, the COE2C will continue to partner with health care professionals to optimize an innovative gene-environment toolkit to disseminate to this target audience. In the previous competitive cycle, the nurse community reached out to us to ask for such tools. Lastly, with funds independent of the NIEHS P30 program, the COE2C has created and will continue to develop other environmental health curricula in collaboration with research members; we plan to disseminate these materials locally and globally. The COE2C Director is Dr. Kathleen Vandiver who sits on the Internal Advisory Board of the CEHS. She will be responsible for convening the Community Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB) meetings and maintaining multi-directional interactions with the communities, partner organizations, and with all research members in the CEHS.