COMMUNITY HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTAL REAWAKENING

该项目的长期目标是改善 南部农村的环境卫生状况， 加强教育和研究合作， 社区组织、环境科学家和医疗 提供商 低土地价格、工资水平和缺乏政治 影响力使南部农村的黑带， 在美国，大多数农村非洲裔美国人的家园， 污染工业和有毒废物。 我们的项目旨在使 对环境不公正的长期影响， 农村非洲裔美国人的技术和政治能力， 成为研究伙伴，参与社区教育， 围绕环境卫生问题。 我们的项目建立 关于目前NIEHS资助的合作， 位于北卡罗来纳州东部的Tillery（CCT）的公民 黑带 Tillery地区98%是非洲裔美国人。 社区健康和环境觉醒汇集了 CCT，北卡罗来纳州学生农村健康联盟，以及环境 来自北卡罗来纳州大学的健康科学家。 超过 在过去的三年里，我们与社区建立了新的伙伴关系， 组织和北卡罗来纳州卫生部，赞助了 首届北卡罗来纳州环境正义峰会，并进行了原 环境正义和健康影响研究。 与 州卫生部的合作，我们的新联盟， 将扩大北卡罗来纳州的环境健康知识 居民、学生和卫生专业人员;让社区参与- 以社区为基础的健康研究组织;促进 社区和医疗提供者参与预防和 环境危害的补救;以及，开发现场方法 进行接触评估和医疗监测， 创新的社区研究， 集约化畜牧业。

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.