Community Outreach and Education Core

社区外展和教育核心

• 批准号: 8650834
• 负责人: Kathleen Mead Vandiver
• 金额: $ 20.15万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8650834
• 关键词: Adult; Age; Area; Awareness; Biological Sciences; Breathing; Cell physiology; Communities; Community Health Education; Community Outreach; Continuing Education; Decision Making; Development; Disease; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Environment; Environmental Health; Evaluation Methodology; Exhibits; Exposure to; Funding; Health; Health Professional; Knowledge; Laboratories; Leadership; Learning; Life; Mission; Museums; Philosophy; Process; Risk; Science; Scientist; Students; Time; Training Programs; Youth; empowered; exhibitions; experience; improved; innovation; interest; member; novel; outreach; prevent; programs; research study; teacher; tool

The primary mission of MIT's COEC program is to raise awareness and understanding of the impact of the environment on health. Awareness is the first step toward change, and therefore through educational outreach, we aim to empower citizens to prevent environmentally induced diseases by providing them with knowledge to help inform wise choices. While COEC activities reach people of all ages, it is the philosophy of this COEC to focus upon youth, a critical at-risk portion of our community who can benefit tremendously from knowledge that will help them make better life choices. Furthermore, understanding environmental health and understanding the fundamentals of life sciences go hand-in-hand, thus providing the dual benefit of informed decision-making, and inspiration in science. Therefore, MIT COEC proposes to continue with its emphasis on youth, while at the same time extending programmatic opportunities to teachers and health care professionals, who are best poised to disseminate valuable environmental health information to the community. This COEC group continues to be innovative both in terms of the conceptual materials covered, but also in terms of the pedagogical tools. Through the development of novel hands-on programs, hundreds of students have become Involved in the learning process, and thus receptive to important concepts about the environment and its impact on their health. In addition, this past cycle, COEC reached out not only to students, but also to thousands of community members of all ages, through a variety of media, including participatory workshops, museum exhibitions, training programs, laboratory experiments, and professional videos. In close alignment with the core interests of the Center, and under strong leadership to streamline the program and optimize its direction, COEC has successfully improved the public understanding of the impact of the environment on health, by connecting the impact of exposures to basic cellular processes. The specific aims for this next funding period are thus focused on activities that will continue to teach fundamental concepts in environmental health to community members of all ages, with emphasis on to students, teachers, health care professionals.

麻省理工学院COEC计划的主要任务是提高人们对环境对健康影响的认识和理解。意识是迈向变革的第一步，因此，通过教育宣传，我们旨在通过向他们提供知识来帮助明智的选择来赋予公民防止环境诱发的疾病。尽管COEC的活动吸引了各个年龄段的人们，但该COEC的哲学是专注于青年，这是我们社区中关键的处于危险中的一部分，他们可以从知识中受益匪浅，这将帮助他们做出更好的生活选择。此外，了解环境健康和理解生命科学的基础知识是汇总的，从而为明智的决策和科学灵感提供了双重好处。 因此，麻省理工学院COEC建议继续强调青年，同时向教师和医疗保健专业人员扩展程序机会，他们最好准备向社区传播有价值的环境健康信息。 就涵盖的概念材料以及教学工具而言，这个COEC集团在概念材料方面仍然具有创新性。通过开发新颖的动手计划，数百名学生参与了学习过程，因此接受了有关环境及其对健康的影响的重要概念。此外，在过去的周期中，COEC不仅通过各种媒体，包括参与式研讨会，博物馆展览，培训计划，实验室实验和专业视频，与成千上万的各个年龄段的社区成员接触。 与该中心的核心利益密切相符，并在简化计划并优化其方向的强大领导下，通过将暴露于基本蜂窝流程的影响联系起来，成功地改善了公众对环境对健康的影响的理解。因此，针对下一个资金期的具体目的是集中在将继续向各个年龄段的社区成员讲授环境健康基本概念的活动，重点是学生，教师，卫生保健专业人员。