Environmental Health MethodologicAl, Training, and Teaching EnterpRiSe (EH MATTERS)

摘要 环境危害更有可能位于低收入的有色人种社区附近。这些危害 负面的社会经济和健康因素，包括慢性病发病率较高，缺乏 获得健康食品、低于标准的住房、种族主义、贫穷、失业、缺乏绿地、社区 暴力和分区不协调。了解环境健康在观察社区中的作用 差异对于帮助社区实现提高生活质量的承诺至关重要。 为人民的生活。直接参与社区识别、发展和评估这些关系 对改善卫生公平至关重要。为协助制订可持续发展的解决方案，我们建议推出 南加州大学的“环境健康方法论、培训和教学企业”（EH事项）项目。 环境卫生事务将（1）帮助培养新一代多样化的环境卫生科学家，以改善环境卫生的 造成不同健康负担的当前环境景观;（2）制定方法， 确定和评估环境健康差异;（3）建立社区参与研究的技能， 研究翻译，以改善公共卫生。EH MATTERS将利用多元化的学生团体， 南加州大学让学生参与强大而多样化的跨学科培训， 研究经验。这将为他们提供所需的技能，以有意义地促进改善 通过综合研究和教育培训方案，了解社区环境卫生状况。 这些努力的成果将激发人们对健康研究关键领域的兴趣， 颜色的社区。通过连续两年的培训周期， 来自代表性不足的少数群体（URG）的本科生每年将被招收到一个两- 年计划，以开发最终在各自国家建立环境社会资本所需的工具。 邻里和社区。EH MATTERS建立在教学研讨会、实践 讲习班、技能建设培训班和直接实地观察活动， 在不同的南加州环境的组织。一个专业的团队熟练的教师有 为学员提供广泛的关键工具，以促进知识和技能， 帮助改善社区环境健康。有着很强的个性化学生的传统 环境流行病学、环境暴露研究、 健康差距和社区参与的参与性研究，EH事项的教师和工作人员将告知， 激励和吸引受训者获得重新平衡某些环境差异所需的技能 在受影响的有色人种社区中。

ABSTRACT Environmental hazards are more likely to be located near low-income communities of color. These hazards are amplified by negative socioeconomic and health factors, including higher rates of chronic diseases, lack of access to healthy foods, substandard housing, racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of greenspace, community violence, and zoning incompatibilities. Understanding the role of environmental health in observed community disparities is fundamentally important to helping communities deliver on the promise of an improved quality of life for its people. Direct community engagement in identifying, developing, and evaluating these relationships is critical to improving health equity. To help develop sustainable solutions, we propose to launch the “Environmental Health MethodologicAl, Training, and Teaching EnterpRiSe” (EH MATTERS) program at USC. EH MATTERS will (1) help foster a new generation of diverse environmental health scientists to improve the current environmental landscape that contributes to disparate health burdens; (2) develop approaches to identify and evaluate environmental health disparities; (3) build skills in community-engaged research and research translation to improve public health. EH MATTERS will leverage the diverse student body at the University of Southern California to engage students in robust and diverse interdisciplinary training and research experiences. This will provide them with needed skills to meaningfully contribute to improving community environmental health status through an integrated research and education training program. Outcomes from these efforts will ignite interest in key areas of health research that disproportionately impact communities of color. Through successive two-year training cycles, up to half a dozen motivated undergraduate students per year from underrepresented minority groups (URGs) will be enrolled into a two- year program to develop the tools needed to ultimately build environmental social capital in their respective neighborhoods and communities. EH MATTERS is built upon a framework of didactic seminars, hands-on workshops, skill-building training sessions, and direct field observation activities with resilient community-based organizations across the diverse Southern California environment. A dedicated team of skilled faculty have been assembled to provide trainees with a broad array of critical tools to advance knowledge and skillsets to help make a difference in community environmental health. With a strong tradition of individualized student mentorship and research grant support in environmental epidemiology, environmental exposure research, health disparities and community-engaged participatory research, EH MATTERS faculty and staff will inform, inspire, and engage trainees to acquire the skills needed to re-balance some of the environmental disparities present in impacted communities of color.