Community Engagement Core

项目摘要 社区参与的研究（CEnR）越来越被视为翻译的基石。 在实现NIEHS战略目标方面发挥着不可或缺的作用。社区参与 核心蛋白（CEC）是辛辛那提大学环境遗传学中心的一个关键整合因子 （CEG）。核心的主要责任是协助CEG调查人员促进互利， 与社区成员、卫生保健专业人员和参与的政策制定者建立双向伙伴关系， 环境健康科学（EHS）。中央选举委员会的最终目标是提高认识， 了解CEG EHS研究，并担任社区和中心之间的联络人。为了 为了实现这些目标，并支持CEG的愿景，即“最大限度地减少环境影响， 该委员会将创新性地实现三个具体目标。具体目标1：翻译和 向目标受众（社区）传播中心的研究成果，使之成为环境公共卫生知识 成员、卫生保健专业人员和政策制定者），以提高对 环境卫生。具体目标2：发展和促进双向社区参与研究 中心研究人员与目标受众之间的伙伴关系，以解决已确定的问题 环境卫生问题、需求和关注。具体目标3：推进社区领域 通过实施公民科学实践，新颖的沟通， 方法和数据披露。具有公共卫生、外联和教育以及环境保护方面的专门知识， 健康传播，高度活跃和致力于CEC社区学术领导团队， 与其利益相关者咨询委员会（SAB）的伙伴关系准备为11个项目中的7个做出重大贡献 NIEHS战略目标（#5、6、7、8、9、10和11）。CEC利用和扩展的创新能力 EHS的现有UC资源，与CEG内的其他核心集成，并利用独立的UC 评估服务中心，将允许CEC的拟议目标具有地方，区域， 国家影响。

Project Summary Community-engaged research (CEnR) is becoming increasingly viewed as a keystone to translational medicine and plays an integral role in accomplishing the NIEHS Strategic Goals. The Community Engagement Core (CEC) is a key integrating element in the University of Cincinnati (UC) Center for Environmental Genetics (CEG). The core has the major responsibility of assisting CEG investigators in fostering mutually beneficial, bidirectional partnerships with community members, health care professionals, and policy makers involved in environmental health science (EHS). The ultimate goals of the CEC are to increase awareness and understanding of CEG EHS research, and serve as a liaison between the community and the Center. In order to achieve these goals and in support of the vision of the CEG to “minimize the impact of environmental exposures on health”; the CEC will innovatively address three specific aims. Specific Aim 1: Translate and disseminate Center research into environmental public health knowledge for our target audiences (community members, health care professionals, and policy makers) in order to increase awareness and understanding of environmental health. Specific Aim 2: Develop and facilitate bidirectional community-engaged research partnerships between Center investigators and members of our target audiences in order to address identified environmental health issues, needs, and concerns. Specific Aim 3: Advance the field of community engagement in environmental health through implementing citizen science practices, novel communication approaches, and data disclosure. With expertise in public health, outreach and education, and environmental health communication, the highly active and committed CEC community-academic leadership team in partnership with its Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB) is poised to significantly contribute to seven of the 11 NIEHS Strategic Goals (#5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11). The innovative ability of the CEC to leverage and expand existing UC resources for EHS, integrate with other Cores within the CEG, and utilize the independent UC Evaluation Services Center, will allow for the proposed objectives of the CEC to have local, regional, and national impact.