Community Engagement Core

项目摘要-社区参与核心 解决部落对与慢性疾病相关的环境健康差距的长期关切 接触水、空气、土地和食物中的金属和其他污染物，社区参与核心 UNM印第安人环境健康公平研究中心(CNAEHER)的 参与努力：(I)建立可持续和符合文化的环境健康能力 伙伴部落社区，(2)增加社区对EH研究方法的参与，特别是 多途径暴露评估，以及(Iii)实施多方向翻译策略，而不是 不仅要将研究成果有效地传达给社区，还要确保社区 关于健康的知识和土著观点为科学以及部落和联邦决策提供信息。这个 CEC将建立在UNM社区环境健康方案与 南达科他州的夏延河苏族部落、蒙大拿州的乌鸦部落和亚利桑那州的纳瓦霍民族 墨西哥和犹他州，并将在未来几年扩大中心，与太平洋西北地区建立新的关系 华盛顿的部落。CEC将使用电子手段协调一组部落研究人员的活动， 非营利组织和印度人拥有的组织的专家，以及大学里的科学家 在美国西部广泛的地区进行沟通和协作，将这些 社区。该小组将解决部落对重金属污染的普遍关切 通过以社区为基础的环境监测，以大学为基础的水、空气、土地和传统食物 研究慢性暴露的毒性的生物学机制，以及网络研讨会和研讨会 旨在确保土著观点为提高环境健康素养和提高环境卫生知识的行动提供信息 降低土著社区健康风险的能力。该中心的社区参与和研究 提供评估接洽方法以及环境和生物医学的概括性的机会 对面临类似EH差异的其他美洲原住民社区的研究。通过向太平洋扩张 西北在最初的五年项目中，该中心将发展能力和技术诀窍，成为 环境健康差距是所有美洲原住民的中心。

Project Summary – Community Engagement Core To address long-standing tribal concerns about environmental health disparities associated with chronic exposures to metals and other contaminants in water, air, land and food, the Community Engagement Core (CEC) of the UNM Center for Native American Environmental Health Equity Research (CNAEHER) will focus engagement efforts on (i) building sustainable and culturally appropriate environmental health (EH) capacity in the partner tribal communities, (ii) increasing community participation in EH research approaches, particularly multiple pathway exposure assessment, and (iii) implementing multidirectional translational strategies that not only effectively communicate the research results to the communities but also ensure that community knowledge and Native perspectives on health inform the science and tribal and federal decision-making. The CEC will build on established relationships of the UNM Community Environmental Health Program with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, Crow Tribe in Montana, and the Navajo Nation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, and will expand in later years of the Center to build new relationships with Pacific Northwest tribes in Washington. CEC will use electronic means to coordinate activities of a team of tribal researchers, specialists at nonprofit and Indian-owned organizations, and university-based scientists to have regular communication and collaboration across the wide expanses of the Western U.S. that separate these communities. The team will address commonly shared tribal concerns about heavy metal contamination of water, air, lands and traditional foods through community-based environmental monitoring, university-based research into the biological mechanisms of toxicity of chronic exposures, and webinars and workshops designed to ensure that indigenous perspectives inform actions to improve environmental health literacy and capacity to reduce health risks in Native communities. The Center’s community engagement and research provide an opportunity to evaluate generalizability of engagement methods and environmental and biomedical research to other Native American communities facing similar EH disparities. By expanding into the Pacific Northwest during the initial five-year project, the Center will develop the capacity and know-how to become the environmental health disparities center for all of Native America.