Environmental Health MethodologicAl, Training, and Teaching EnterpRiSe (EH MATTERS)

摘要 环境危害更有可能发生在有色人种低收入社区附近。这些危险 负面的社会经济和健康因素，包括较高的慢性病发病率、缺乏 获得健康食品、不合标准的住房、种族主义、贫困、失业、缺乏绿地、社区 暴力，以及分区的不相容。理解环境健康在被观察社区中的作用 差距对于帮助社区实现提高质量的承诺至关重要 为它的人民而活。社区直接参与确定、发展和评估这些关系 是改善卫生公平的关键。为协助发展可持续发展的解决方案，我们建议推出 南加州大学“环境健康方法论、培训和教学事业”(EH Matters)项目。 EH Matters将(1)有助于培养新一代多元化的环境健康科学家，以改善 造成不同健康负担的当前环境状况；(2)制定方法以 识别和评估环境健康差距；(3)培养社区参与研究和 研究翻译以改善公众健康。EH问题将影响到学生群体的多样性 南加州大学让学生参加强有力的和多样化的跨学科培训 研究经验。这将为他们提供所需的技能，从而对改进做出有意义的贡献 通过综合研究和教育培训计划，改善社区环境健康状况。 这些努力的结果将点燃人们对健康研究关键领域的兴趣，这些领域对健康研究的影响不成比例 有色人种社区。通过连续两年的培训周期，多达六人受到激励 来自代表不足的少数族裔群体(URGs)的本科生将每年招收两个- 年计划，以开发最终在各自国家建立环境社会资本所需的工具 社区和社区。EH Matters建立在说教研讨会的框架上，亲身实践 以社区为基础的有弹性的研讨会、技能培养培训课程和直接现场观察活动 不同的南加州环境中的组织。一支由经验丰富的教师组成的敬业团队 为学员提供了广泛的关键工具，以提高知识和技能集 帮助在社区环境健康方面有所作为。有着深厚的个性化学生传统 在环境流行病学、环境暴露研究、 健康差距和社区参与的参与性研究，EH事项教职员工将告知， 激励和吸引学员获得重新平衡某些环境差距所需的技能 出现在受影响的有色人种社区中。

ABSTRACT Environmental hazards are more likely to be located near low-income communities of color. These hazards are amplified by negative socioeconomic and health factors, including higher rates of chronic diseases, lack of access to healthy foods, substandard housing, racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of greenspace, community violence, and zoning incompatibilities. Understanding the role of environmental health in observed community disparities is fundamentally important to helping communities deliver on the promise of an improved quality of life for its people. Direct community engagement in identifying, developing, and evaluating these relationships is critical to improving health equity. To help develop sustainable solutions, we propose to launch the “Environmental Health MethodologicAl, Training, and Teaching EnterpRiSe” (EH MATTERS) program at USC. EH MATTERS will (1) help foster a new generation of diverse environmental health scientists to improve the current environmental landscape that contributes to disparate health burdens; (2) develop approaches to identify and evaluate environmental health disparities; (3) build skills in community-engaged research and research translation to improve public health. EH MATTERS will leverage the diverse student body at the University of Southern California to engage students in robust and diverse interdisciplinary training and research experiences. This will provide them with needed skills to meaningfully contribute to improving community environmental health status through an integrated research and education training program. Outcomes from these efforts will ignite interest in key areas of health research that disproportionately impact communities of color. Through successive two-year training cycles, up to half a dozen motivated undergraduate students per year from underrepresented minority groups (URGs) will be enrolled into a two- year program to develop the tools needed to ultimately build environmental social capital in their respective neighborhoods and communities. EH MATTERS is built upon a framework of didactic seminars, hands-on workshops, skill-building training sessions, and direct field observation activities with resilient community-based organizations across the diverse Southern California environment. A dedicated team of skilled faculty have been assembled to provide trainees with a broad array of critical tools to advance knowledge and skillsets to help make a difference in community environmental health. With a strong tradition of individualized student mentorship and research grant support in environmental epidemiology, environmental exposure research, health disparities and community-engaged participatory research, EH MATTERS faculty and staff will inform, inspire, and engage trainees to acquire the skills needed to re-balance some of the environmental disparities present in impacted communities of color.