COMMUNITY HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTAL REAWAKENING

该项目的长期目标是通过 加强 社区组织、环境科学家和 医疗提供者之间的教育和研究合作，改善 南方农村的环境卫生条件。低廉的土地价格，工资水平和缺乏政治 影响使得南方农村的黑带（ 是美国大多数非洲裔美国人的家园）容易受到 污染工业和有毒废物的影响。我们的项目旨在通过促进 非洲裔美国农村人的技术和政治能力 成为研究伙伴、参与社区教育和 围绕环境健康问题组织起来，从而使 对环境不公正现象产生长期影响。我们的项目建立在 当前niehs资助的合作项目的基础上，该项目由位于北卡罗来纳州东部 黑带的关注 耕田公民（CCT）领导。蒂勒里地区98%的人口是非裔美国人。社区健康和环境觉醒汇集了 CCT，北卡罗来纳学生农村健康联盟和北卡罗来纳大学的环境健康科学家 。在 过去的三年里，我们与以社区为基础的 组织和北卡罗来纳州卫生部建立了新的伙伴关系，赞助了 第一届北卡罗来纳州环境正义峰会，并进行了原始的 环境正义和健康影响研究。通过 与州卫生部的合作，我们的新联盟 将扩大北卡罗莱纳州居民、学生和卫生专业人员的环境卫生知识 ；使以社区 为基础的组织参与社区推动的卫生研究；促进 社区和医疗提供者参与预防和 补救环境危害；制定实地接触评估和医疗监测方法 ，以支持 以社区为基础的关于 集约化畜牧业健康危害的创新研究。

The long-term objective of this project is to improve environmental health conditions in the rural South by strengthening education and research collaborations between community organizations, environmental scientists and medical providers. Low land prices, wage levels and lack of political influence have made the Black Belt of the rural South, which is home to most rural African Americans in the USA, susceptible to polluting industries and toxic wastes. Our project seeks to make a long-term impact on environmental injustice by facilitating technical and political capacities of rural African Americans to be partners in research, to engage in community education, and to organize around environmental health issues. Our project builds on a current NIEHS-funded collaboration led by the Concerned Citizens of Tillery (CCT), located in the eastern North Carolina Black Belt. The Tillery area is 98 percent African American. Community Health and Environmental Reawakening brings together CCT, the NC Student Rural Health Coalition, and environmental health scientists from the University of North Carolina. Over the last 3 years we built new partnerships with community-based organizations and the NC State Health Department, sponsored the first NC Environmental Justice Summit, and conducted original environmental Justice and health effects research. With collaboration of the State Health Department, our new coalition will expand environmental health knowledge of North Carolina residents, students and health professionals; involve community- based organizations in community-driven health research; promote community and medical provider involvement in prevention and remediation of environmental hazards; and, develop field methods for exposure assessment and medical monitoring to support innovative community-based research on health hazards of intensive livestock operations.