Community Outreach Education and Engagement Core

社区外展教育和参与核心：项目概要/摘要 社区外展教育和参与核心（COE 2C）实现双向沟通 核心中心和社区团体之间的关系COE 2C倾听并回应我们的社区， 关注环境健康。它将这些担忧传达给我们的内部研究人员， 目标是为他们的工作提供信息，并为科学家社区对话创造一个平台。我们的一个社区 是由缅因州的印第安部落组成的，他们向我们伸出援手，参与空气和水的问题 环境污染问题，以及如何以文化上敏感的方式解释环境污染的基础等问题。 疾病给他们的家人。第二个社区是由2010年神秘河流域的22个城镇组成的。 马萨诸塞州。这些社区，其中一些是环境正义社区， 担心几个世纪的工业活动造成的水污染。与CEHS的双向对话， 由COE 2C催化，为社区提供与科学专业知识的重要联系， 社区成员对他们的担忧。此外，COE 2C将继续与医疗保健合作， 专业人员优化创新的基因环境工具包，以传播给这一目标受众。在 上一个竞争周期，护士社区向我们伸出援手，要求提供这些工具。最后，资金 独立于NIEHS P30计划，COE 2C已经创建并将继续开发其他 与研究人员合作，开设环境卫生课程;我们计划传播这些材料 本地和全球。COE 2C主任是Kathleen Vandiver博士，他是COE 2C内部咨询委员会的成员。 的CEHS。她将负责召集社区利益相关者咨询委员会（SAB）会议 与社区、伙伴组织和所有研究保持多方向的互动 在CEHS的成员。

COMMUNITY OUTREACH EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT CORE: PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Community Outreach Education and Engagement Core (COE2C) enables two-way communication between the Core Center and community groups. The COE2C listens and responds to our communities who have concerns about environmental health. It communicates those concerns to our internal researchers, with the goal of informing their work and creating a platform for scientist-community dialog. One of our communities is composed of Native American Tribes in Maine who reached out to us to engage on issues of air and water pollution, as well as on issues involving how to explain, in a culturally sensitive way, the basis of environmental disease to their members. A second community is composed of the 22 towns in the Mystic River watershed in Massachusetts. These communities, some of which are environmental justice (EJ) communities, are concerned about water contamination from centuries of industrial activity. The two-way dialog with the CEHS, catalyzed by the COE2C, provides communities with important connections to scientific expertise to advise community members about their concerns. Additionally, the COE2C will continue to partner with health care professionals to optimize an innovative gene-environment toolkit to disseminate to this target audience. In the previous competitive cycle, the nurse community reached out to us to ask for such tools. Lastly, with funds independent of the NIEHS P30 program, the COE2C has created and will continue to develop other environmental health curricula in collaboration with research members; we plan to disseminate these materials locally and globally. The COE2C Director is Dr. Kathleen Vandiver who sits on the Internal Advisory Board of the CEHS. She will be responsible for convening the Community Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB) meetings and maintaining multi-directional interactions with the communities, partner organizations, and with all research members in the CEHS.