Community Outreach and Education Core

优秀的生物医学研究本身并不是目的，而必须根据它对人类健康、疾病、死亡和生活质量的影响来判断。“翻译”是指研究为人们带来实实在在的利益的复杂过程。在NIH路线图倡议中，它被视为迅速将基础研究发现转化为药物、治疗或预防方法。翻译是复杂的，需要一个完整的愿景和一系列学科，才能成功地将一个发现从替补席带到床边。要通过减少环境暴露来减少疾病和死亡率并提高生活质量，就需要科学进步改变我们的生活和社会结构。这种类型的有效翻译既不是生物医学研究机构的常规做法，也不是卫生保健提供系统的常规做法。我们的COEC旨在促进和领导将环境健康科学的进步转化为三个NIEHS确定的目标受众、社区、医疗保健专业人员以及公共和私营部门决策和政策制定者的生活、行为和实践。与这些目标受众的有意义的互动是双向的：这些受众有助于识别 需要解决，框架研究问题，并帮助确保实际应用；研究人员确保以科学严谨和可辩护的方式回答问题。 有效的翻译需要将COEC活动整合到CEET中，以便在基础和临床科学家之间以及与对结果感兴趣的目标受众之间进行协调的信息传输。在CEET内部，翻译是一项综合责任，也是中心愿景和使命的一部分。这是至关重要的，因为翻译过程通常涉及能力和时间投入，超出了任何一个人的合理范围，而且翻译需要CEET各个组成部分的能力。COEC的作用是发展和保持密切的工作 与利益相关者社区、卫生保健专业人员以及决策和政策制定者之间的关系和伙伴关系；加强双向交流并向这些群体提供教育；促进向目标受众传播研究成果；并帮助使这些社区的研究需求引起中心研究人员的注意。由于COEC被禁止从事研究，它必须依赖CEET内湿和干研究实验室的专门知识和研究结果。

Excellent biomedical research is not an end in Itself, but must be judged by the impact that it has on human health, disease, death and quality of life. "Translation" refers to the complex processes by which research results in tangible benefits for people. In the NIH Roadmap Initiative, it is seen as quickly transforming basic research discoveries Into drugs, treatments or methods for prevention. Translation is complex, and requires an integrated vision and a chain of disciplines that can take a discovery from the bench to the bedside successfully. Translation to decrease disease and mortality and to improve quality of life by reducing environmental exposures requires that scientific advances alter the fabric of our lives and our society. Effective translation of this type is neither routine for the biomedical research establishment or the health care delivery system. Our COEC aims to facilitate and lead translation of advances in environmental health sciences into the lives, behaviors and practices of the three NIEHS Identified target audiences; communities, health care professionals, and public and private sector decision and policy makers. Meaningful interaction with these target audiences Is bi-directional: these audiences help identify the environmental health problems that need to be solved, frame research questions, and help ensure practical application; researchers ensure that questions are answered in a scientifically rigorous and defensible way. Effective translation requires integration of COEC activities within CEET, so that there is coordinated transfer of information between basic and clinical scientists, and with the target audiences who have an interest in the results. Within CEET, translation is an integrated responsibility, and part of the vision and mission of the center. This is essential because the process of translation usually involves competencies and time commitments that are beyond the reasonable scope of any one individual, and because translation needs capabilities from various CEET components. The roles of the COEC are to develop and maintain close working relationships and partnerships with the stakeholder communities, health care professionals and decision and policy makers; to enhance two-way communication and provide education to those groups; to facilitate the dissemination of research results to target audiences; and to help bring research needs of these communities to the attention of Center researchers. Since the COEC Is proscribed from doing research it must rely on the expertise and research findings from the wet and dry research laboratories within CEET.