Core C: Community Outreach and Translation Core

我们儿童环境健康中心(CEHC)应用的总体目标是评估环境暴露，特别是空气污染和内毒素对儿童对病毒感染和过敏原暴露的反应的影响。社区外联和翻译核心(COTC)将作为一个论坛，交流关于环境对科罗拉多州城乡儿童呼吸健康的影响的想法、想法和信息。COTC将成为科学研究人员和社区利益攸关方之间的桥梁，为社区成员组织翻译和吸收的方法和战略。COTC将吸收现有的研究证据，同时通知CEHC研究调查人员需要对社区进行响应性研究。最初，我们开发这一模型的工作将集中在丹佛的哮喘和选定的农村社区，然后扩展到其他呼吸道疾病，以及科罗拉多州的其他社区。 我们的具体目标包括： 1.建立一个由社区咨询委员会(CAB)提供信息并通过遵循以社区为基础的参与性研究、社区参与以及知识转化和传播的原则来完成其工作的强有力的COTC。 2.为了响应社区的需求，CEHC将通过COTC汇编与影响科罗拉多州儿童呼吸健康的因素有关的现有研究证据，这些证据将用于为社区利益相关者的工作提供信息，如政策、法规和计划。 3.CAB将协助解释和传递关于环卫中心研究的重要信息，并为社区传播和吸收战略提供信息。 4.利用现有的社区基础设施和伙伴关系，以便能够试行翻译和实施战略，以确定最有效的战略，以便在社区吸收研究成果。

The overall goal of our Children's Environmental Health Center (CEHC) application is to evaluate the impact of environmental exposures, specifically air pollution and endotoxin, on response to viral infection and allergen exposure in children. The Community Outreach and Translation Core (COTC) will serve as a forum for exchanging ideas, thoughts and information regarding the impact of the environment on the respiratory health of children in urban and rural Colorado. The COTC will be a bridge between scientific investigators and community stakeholders for organizing approaches and strategies for translation and uptake by community members. The COTC will assimilate the available research evidence while informing the CEHC research investigators of the need for responsive research to the community. Initially our work in developing this model will center on asthma in Denver and select rural communities and then extend to other respiratory illnesses, and other communities in Colorado. Our specific aims include the following: 1. To develop a strong COTC that is informed by the Community Advisory Board (CAB) and accomplishes its work through following the principles of community based participatory research, community engagement and knowledge translation and dissemination. 2. To be responsive to the needs of the community, the CEHC through the COTC will compile existing research evidence related to factors that impact respiratory health of children in Colorado that will be used to inform the work of community stakeholders, such as policies, regulations, and programs. 3. The CAB will assist with the interpretation and key messaging of the CEHCs research as well as informing the strategies for community dissemination and uptake. 4. To leverage existing community infrastructures and partnerships to permit the piloting of translation and implementation strategies that will identify the most effective strategies resulting in the uptake of research in communities.