Community Engagement Core

摘要 我们的CEC目标是促进和加强合作，以响应社会需求，与 改善社区卫生和城乡公共卫生实践的总体愿景和目标 不成比例地受到环境暴露影响的社区。我们的利益相关者包括城市和 农村社区、政策制定者、环境资源管理者和公共卫生专业人员。钥匙 与以社区为基础的组织、部落和教育工作者的伙伴关系奠定和指导我们的重点领域。 我们是一个强大的团队，在研究、翻译和社区参与方面拥有不同的技能。2019年，随着 新员工和即将上任的联席董事，我们对我们战略的有效性进行了批判性的反思 到目前为止，以及我们历史性的伙伴关系的力量。我们继续关注空气质量和以吸入为基础的 暴露，因为西雅图南部的低收入社区经历了不成比例的柴油暴露和 华盛顿东部社区面临持续的野火烟雾。我们的环境健康计划 教师继续我们关于吸入暴露的相关工作，并进一步关注以下物质对健康的影响 蒸发。 我们准备通过有影响力的项目、研究、翻译和影响来深化和扩展我们的工作 评估，包括通过我们加强对灾害研究应对(DR2)的关注。在接下来的五年里 几年后，我们将扩大DR2的工作领域，培养我们的实践社区，并为当地、全州范围内的 和国家领导力。除了在科学交流和研究翻译方面持续卓越之外， 我们的CEC还将正式建立一个社区响应性研究实验室。随着这一资源的开发， 我们将增强我们与能够支持社区驱动的研究人员连接社区的能力 项目。自始至终，我们利用我们的专业知识和优势来提高环境健康素养。 并促进环境公共健康。

ABSTRACT Our CEC objective is to facilitate and enhance collaborations that are responsive to community needs, with the overarching vision and aim of improving community health and public health practice for urban and rural communities disproportionately impacted by environmental exposures. Our stakeholders include urban and rural communities, policy-makers, environmental resource managers, and public health professionals. Key partnerships with community-based organizations, tribes, and educators ground and guide our areas of focus. We are a robust team with diverse skill sets in research translation and community engagement. In 2019, with new staff and incoming co-director, we engaged in critical reflection about the effectiveness of our strategies to-date and the strength of our historic partnerships. We continue to focus on air quality and inhalation-based exposures, as low-income communities in south Seattle experience disproportionate diesel exposures and eastern Washington communities face persistent wildfire smoke. Our environmental health programs with teachers carry our related work on inhalation exposures focus further with lessons on the health impacts of vaping. We are poised to deepen and extend our work through impactful projects, research translation and impact assessment, including through our enhanced focus on disaster research response (DR2). Over the next five years, we will grow our DR2 areas of work, fostering our community of practice and providing local, statewide, and national leadership. In addition to ongoing excellence in science communication and research translation, our CEC will also formalize a Community Responsive Research Lab. With the development of this resource, we will enhance our ability to connect communities with researchers who can support community-driven projects. Throughout, we leverage our expertise and EDGE strengths to enhance environmental health literacy and promote environmental public health.