Community Outreach and Translation Core

项目摘要 波多黎各儿童早期接触和发展研究中心将研究 环境暴露和改变因素对胎儿和幼儿健康的影响， 在这个服务不足，高度暴露的人群中的发展。CRECE将利用NIH资助的 在波多黎各进行的一项"BMT"妊娠队列研究（P42 ES 017198），该研究跟踪了1800名接受以下治疗的孕妇： 污染严重的北方海岸基于这一丰富的数据集，CRECE跨学科 来自东北大学、密歇根大学和波多黎各大学的研究小组将 分析600名儿童的早期生活暴露和儿童发育， 被记录在CRTT研究中，将他们的研究扩展到四岁。CRECE包括三个 研究项目，人类受试者服务核心，社区外展和翻译核心以及 行政核心。 社区外展和翻译核心（COTC）将是CRECE的公共接口。COTC将： 1)确保向参与者提供高质量的个人数据报告，并向社区汇总数据， 与人类受试者核心和项目研究人员合作。2)发展环境卫生 为波多黎各开展外联和教育方案，并通过以下方式倡导儿童环境健康： 与州和联邦机构以及非政府组织建立伙伴关系;这将在 与行政核心和项目调查员合作。3)建立和扩大与 医疗和公共卫生界，促进大学间的伙伴关系，倡导公共卫生 倡议，并协调旨在建设医疗保健专业人员能力的学习机会， 环境公共卫生活动的公共卫生工作人员;这将与卫生部合作进行。 专家。4)让职业发展学院也是COTC的成员参与外联和研究 翻译活动。

PROJECT SUMMARY The Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico (CRECE) will study the impact of a mixture of environmental exposures and modifying factors on fetal and early childhood health and development in this under-served, highly-exposed population. CRECE will leverage an ongoing NIH-funded “PROTECT” pregnancy cohort study in Puerto Rico (P42ES017198) that is tracking 1800 pregnant women on the island’s heavily contaminated northern coast. Building on this rich dataset, the CRECE interdisciplinary research team from Northeastern University, University of Michigan, and the University of Puerto Rico will analyze the early life exposure and child development for a cohort of 600 children whose prenatal exposures were documented in the PROTECT study, extending their study through age four. CRECE includes three research projects, a Human Subjects service Core, a Community Outreach and Translation Core and the Administrative Core. The Community Outreach and Translation Core (COTC) will be the public interface for CRECE. The COTC will: 1) Ensure high quality report-back of individual data to participants, and aggregate data to communities, in collaboration with the Human Subjects Core and the project investigators. 2) Develop environmental health outreach and education programs for Puerto Rico and advocate for children’s environmental health through partnerships with state and federal agencies and non-governmental organizations; this will be done in collaboration with the Administrative Core and Project Investigators. 3) Establish and expand relationships with medical and public health communities, facilitate inter-university partnerships, advocate for public health initiatives, and coordinate learning opportunities aimed at building capacity among healthcare professionals and public health staff for environmental public health activities; this will be done in collaboration with the Health Specialist. 4) Involve the Career Development Faculty, also a member of the COTC, in outreach and research translation activities.