CORE--Community Outreach and Translation Core

摘要哈佛儿童环境健康研究中心的社区推广和翻译核心(COTC)将与其他每个项目和核心的调查人员以及一个积极的COTC顾问委员会合作，将该中心的科学发现翻译和应用到公众、政策制定者和临床上的信息中 专业人士用来保护儿童健康。咨询委员会将包括一名负责研究区域内大多数分娩的产科医生；一名负责在当地精神卫生门诊治疗病人的医生；一名印度健康诊所的公共卫生护士；一名县卫生部门负责预防铅中毒的健康教育者；一名部落环境主任；一名部落指定人员；一名Integris医院的行政长官、一家青年心理健康机构的首席执行官；以及一名部落努力反对首席外联主任。COTC将集中精力汇编和总结文献和中心赞助的研究结果中的信息，这些研究涉及采矿废物中金属暴露对儿童的健康风险；采矿废物中金属与营养状况之间的潜在相互作用；以及可能改变金属暴露的个人和文化特有的行为。将通过在医生候诊室、图书馆、广告牌和其他公共场所分发小册子和海报的形式，宣传评估和减少接触孕妇和儿童的风险的简单措施。COTC的网站(www.Leadagency.org)将用于交流中心每个研究项目的进展情况。此外，还将每两个月出版一次通讯，这将 该中心致力于该项目的科学家的专题采访和文章。COTC将赞助中心教职员工参与在NEO农工学院向当地学生讲授12小时的基本环境健康概念。中心教职员工将被邀请通过远程学习在核心班级、NEO护理学校和当地职业技术学校进行客座讲座。这一远程学习计划将允许当地学者和NEO学生参加由俄克拉荷马州立大学提供的学分课程。COTC的另一个组成部分是社区学者计划，该计划将招募和促进当地学者的专业成长，这些学者对环境健康和该中心的研究感兴趣，并将开发自己的小型研究项目。这些学者将在俄克拉荷马州，特别是渥太华县招募，并将包括来自不同学科的个人，涵盖环境健康、教育、环境科学和公共政策领域。最后，COTC核心将与行政核心合作编写和分发一份年度报告。

ABSTRACT The Community Outreach and Translation Core (COTC) of the Harvard Children's Environmental Health Research Center will work with the investigators from each of the other Projects and Cores as well as an active COTC Advisory Board to translate and apply the scientific findings of the Center into information for the public, policy makers, and clinical professionals to use to protect the health of children. The Advisory Board will include an obstetrician responsible for the majority of births in the study area; a physician responsible for treatment of patients at the local mental health out patient clinic, a public health nurse at the Indian Health Clinic, a health educator at the county health department dealing with lead poisoning prevention, a tribal environmental director, tribal designees, administrator of Integris Hospital, CEO of a mental health facility for youth, Tribal Efforts Against Lead outreach director. The COTC will concentrate its efforts on compiling and summarizing information from the literature and from the findings of Center-sponsored studies pertaining to the health risks to children that are associated with exposures to metals in mining waste; the potential interactions between metals in mining waste and nutritional status; and personal and culture-specific behaviors that may modify exposure to metals. Simple measures for assessing and mitigating risks of exposure to pregnant women and children will be communicated in the form of pamphlets and posters distributed in doctors' waiting rooms, libraries, billboards and other public places. The COTC's website (www.leadagency.org) will be used to communicate progress in each of the Center's research projects. In addition, a newsletter will be published bi-monthly, that will feature interviews and articles of the Center's scientists working on the project. The COTC will sponsor the participation of Center faculty in teaching 12 hours of basic environmental health concepts to local students at NEO A & M College. Center faculty will be invited to guest lecture via distance learning in core classes and the nursing school at NEO and at the local vocational technical school. This Distance Learning program will allow local scholars and NEO students to take the courses for credit, which will be provided by Oklahoma State University. Another component of the COTC is a community scholars program that will recruit and foster the professional growth of local scholars who are interested in learning about environmental health and the Center's research, and who will develop small research projects of their own. These scholars will be recruited within Oklahoma, especially within Ottawa County, and will include individuals from various disciplines to encompass the fields of environmental health, education, environmental sciences and public policy. Finally, the COTC core will work with the Administrative Core to compile and disseminate an Annual Report.