RESEARCHING WOMEN?S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WORKSHOP 2009

描述(由申请人提供) 首次研究女性环境健康(RWEH)研讨会将于2009年9月16日在纽约罗切斯特大学医学和牙科学院举行。这个研讨会旨在实现三个目标。第一个目标是以清楚和有说服力的方式提供环境对妇女健康影响的例子，使这些信息的使用者(保健从业者和感兴趣的公众)感到满意。RWEH的第二个目标是评估这些研究报告在与利益集团及其医疗保健提供者沟通方面的成功。最后，研究人员希望RWEH出版一份出版物，为研究成果的消费者发现什么是研究结果的成功翻译提供见解。为此，他们邀请了一位杰出的主旨演讲人Giudice博士，他为我们理解环境在妇女健康中的作用做出了重要的科学贡献，并成功地向卫生保健提供者和公众传达了这一信息。其他三位发言者可以用她们自己的前沿工作中的例子，以令人信服和可以理解的方式讨论妇女生殖健康及其环境影响的科学。目前环境健康研究的一个主要重点是“翻译”，但很少有项目评估这些翻译努力的成功。该讲习班旨在通过深入评估向这些成果的潜在“用户”提交研究成果的情况，并从有组织的重点小组、评估方法专家那里获得反馈，从而提供这样的评价。拟议的研讨会将通过以下方式实现这些目标：包括杰出演讲者的出色研究报告，然后举行四个分组小组(每个小组一个)，其中小组(由研究人员、卫生保健提供者和感兴趣的社区代表组成)将讨论所传达的“带走”信息，以及小组希望提供哪些额外信息(或信息呈现方式的变化)，以便更好地理解科学及其影响。为了评估这些努力的成功，调查人员将邀请UR社区和预防医学部卫生服务处的定性研究人员担任报告员，并在总结会议期间提供小组的反馈，并制作一份出版物，为临床医生和研究结果的其他消费者提供促进研究结果翻译的见解。RWEH研讨会的咨询委员会包括调查人员所针对的三个小组的成员，并将努力确保制定一个满足研讨会目标的计划，并将帮助将有关研讨会的信息带给所有选民。这次研讨会应该会引起国家环境卫生研究所的兴趣，因为它非常重视翻译研究，而且迫切需要评估活跃的研究人员成功完成这些翻译的能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The first Researching Women's Environmental Health (RWEH) Workshop will be held September 16, 2009 in Rochester, New York at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. This workshop was designed to achieve three aims. The first aim is to provide examples of environmental impacts on women's health in a manner that is clear and compelling to users of this information (health practitioners and the interested public). The second aim of RWEH is to evaluate these research presentations as to their success in communicating to interest groups and their health care providers. Finally, the investigators hope to produce a publication from RWEH that can provide insights into what the consumer of research findings finds to be successful translation of research results. To this end they have invited an outstanding keynote speaker, Dr. Giudice, who has provided important scientific contributions to our understanding of the role of environment in women's health and has successfully translated this message for health care providers and the public. The other three speakers can address the science of women's reproductive health and its environmental influences compellingly and understandably, using examples from their own cutting edge work. A major emphasis of environmental health research currently is on "translation" but there are few programs that evaluate the success of these translational efforts. This workshop is designed to provide such an evaluation, by doing in-depth assessments of the presentation of research results to potential "users" of these results and getting feedback from structured focus groups, by experts in evaluation methods. The proposed workshop will achieve these aims by including excellent research presentations by outstanding speakers and then holding four break-out groups (one for each presentation) in which the groups (comprised of a mix of researchers, health care providers and interested community representatives) will discuss the "take away" messages that were conveyed and what additional information (or changes in presentation of information) the group would want to in order to better understand the science and its impact. To evaluate the success of these efforts the investigators will invite qualitative researchers from the Health Services Division of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at UR to serve as rapporteur and to both provide feedback from the group during the wrap-up session and to produce a publication that will provide insights into what facilitates translation of research findings to the clinician and other consumers of research findings. The Advisory Committee for the RWEH workshop includes members of the three groups the investigators are targeting and will work to ensure a program that addresses the workshop aims and will assist in bringing information about the workshop to all constituencies. This workshop should be of interest to the National Institute of Environmental Health, with its strong emphasis on translational research, and the pressing need for evaluation of the ability of active researchers to successfully make these translations.