Core E: Community Outreach Core

社区外展核心：部落大学合作，以解决部落暴露于多环芳烃和改善社区健康。 社区外展核心的目标是应用从我们的SBRP获得的知识，以更好地了解与乌马蒂拉印第安人保留地的PAH暴露相关的健康风险，并协助与部落合作伙伴进行人力资源能力建设。这将通过一个合作项目来完成，该项目包括乌马蒂拉印第安保留地联合部落（CTUIR）部落机构、部落和大学调查人员以及部落社区成员。CTUIR和许多其他美国部落从事传统和文化习俗，可能导致疾病风险增加，这是由于传统烟熏食品的累积PAH暴露，传统烟熏食品的空气暴露和环境空气污染。部落成员不能放弃自己的文化和宗教，也不能为了躲避污染物而离开家园。因此，至关重要的是，他们要发展能力，更好地了解这些风险的性质，并参与制定和宣传文化上适当和切实可行的减少风险战略。外联核心的具体目标是：（1）建立和召集一个代表部落和政府机构的跨学科咨询小组， 其他成员将在部落文化生活方式和文化上适当的风险降低措施方面增加额外的专业知识; 2）与Umatilla部落合作伙伴一起参与人员能力建设，并确定更好地评估与其传统和文化习俗相关的PAH暴露途径的机会; 3）制定文化上适当的风险降低方法和外展战略，为改善健康提供最佳机会。这个核心外联项目建立在部落社区的优势和资源之上，将在项目的所有阶段促进合作和公平的伙伴关系。直接的能力建设活动将与CTUIR科学和工程系一起进行，并将由代表部落实体的跨学科咨询小组提供信息。从这一核心发展而来的方法将作为一种模式，帮助其他部落社区评估其PAH暴露，并设计保护公共健康的风险降低策略。

Community Outreach Core: Tribal-University Collaboration to Address Tribal Exposures to PAHs and Improve Community Health. The goal of the Community Outreach Core is to apply the knowledge gained from our SBRP to better understand health risks associated with PAH exposure on the Umatilla Indian Reservation and to assist in human capacity building with Tribal partners. This will be accomplished through a collaborative project that includes the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) Tribal agencies, Tribal and University investigators, and Tribal community members. The CTUIR and many other U.S. Tribes are engaged in traditional and cultural practices that may result in increased risk of disease due to cumulative PAH exposures from traditionally-smoked foods, air exposure from traditional smoking of foods, and ambient air pollution. Tribal members cannot give up their culture and religion or move from their homelands in order to avoid contaminants. Thus, it is critically important for them to develop the capacity to better understand the nature of these exposures, and to be engaged in the development and communication of culturally appropriate and practical risk reduction strategies. The specific aims of the Outreach Core are to: 1) establish and convene an interdisciplinary advisory group representing Tribal and government agencies, and other members who will add additional expertise in tribal cultural lifestyles and culturally-appropriate risk reduction measures; 2) engage in human capacity building with the Umatilla Tribal partners and identify opportunities to better assess PAH exposure pathways specific and relevant to their traditional and cultural practices; 3) develop culturally appropriate risk reduction approaches and outreach strategies that offer the best opportunity for improved health. This Outreach Core builds on strengths and resources within the Tribal community, and will facilitative a collaborative, equitable partnership in all phases of the project. Direct capacity building activities will be carried out with the CTUIR Department of Science and Engineering, and will be informed by an interdisciplinary advisory group representing tribal entities. The approach that evolves from this Core will serve as a model to help other Tribal communities evaluate their PAH exposures and design risk reduction strategies that are protective of public health.