Community Engagement Core (CEC)

摘要 社区参与核心（CEC）支持环境健康中心的主题， 易感性（CEHS），将环境健康易感性的跨学科研究转化为 改善北卡罗来纳州的公共卫生。社区参与核心（CEC）的工作， 查佩尔山环境健康与易感性中心（CEHS）以该中心的研究重点为基础， CEC的影响范围广泛地延伸到全州，并深入到北卡罗来纳州的公共社区 卫生和教育专业人员。CEC优先考虑与公共卫生专业人员合作， 教育工作者谁从事我们国家的最弱势群体，如少数民族和低收入人口， 因为这些人群往往更容易受到CEHS研究的不良健康结果的影响， 往往有更严重的健康后果。委员会的目的是加强公众对 环境卫生科学研究和促进公共卫生部门的环境卫生知识 专业人员和中学科学和卫生教师，提高对环境卫生问题的认识 促进知情决策，减少家庭中的有害环境暴露， 社区.我们通过四个目标来实现这一目标：（1）促进CEHS成员之间的对话， 社区合作伙伴为环境健康科学研究的发展提供信息， （2）加强公共卫生从业人员与弱势群体接触的能力 （3）为市民及其他居民提供与本地环境卫生有关的训练; 提高中学科学和健康教育工作者的能力，使青少年参与有意义的、 通过促进将尖端研究纳入教学，实现社会背景化教育;以及（4） 促进CEHS调查员和受训人员科学交流技能的发展。CEC是 CEHS的一个重要组成部分，因为它连接CEHS调查人员与社区合作伙伴， 多方向的沟通和确保与国家的广泛相关性，这两者都是至关重要的， 实现CEHS的转化目标。

ABSTRACT The Community Engagement Core (CEC) supports the theme of the UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS), translating interdisciplinary research on environmental health susceptibility to improve public health in North Carolina. The work of the Community Engagement Core (CEC) in the UNC- Chapel Hill Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) is grounded in the Center's research foci, and the CEC's reach extends broadly across the state and deeply into North Carolina's communities of public health and education professionals. The CEC prioritizes partnering with public health professionals and educators who engage our state's most vulnerable populations, such as minority and low-income populations, because these populations tend to be more at-risk of the adverse health outcomes being studied in CEHS and tend to have more serious health outcomes. The goal of the CEC is to enhance public understanding of environmental health sciences research and foster environmental health literacy among public health professionals and secondary science and health teachers, raising awareness of environmental health issues and facilitating informed decision making that reduces harmful environmental exposures in homes and communities. We accomplish this goal through four aims: (1) To foster dialogue among CEHS members and community partners to inform development of environmental health sciences research that is responsive to community concerns; (2) To enhance the capacity of public health practitioners to engage vulnerable populations and other residents on locally relevant environmental health issues using a train-the-trainer approach; (3) To enhance the capacity of secondary science and health educators to engage adolescents in meaningful and socially contextualized education by facilitating incorporation of cutting-edge research into instruction; and (4) To facilitate development of science communication skills among CEHS investigators and trainees. The CEC is a vital element of the CEHS as it connects CEHS investigators with community partners, facilitating multidirectional communication and ensuring broad relevance to the State, both of which are critical to meeting the translational goals of the CEHS.