Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心

• 批准号: 10559480
• 负责人: Tamarra M James-Todd
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-21 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10559480
• 关键词: 13 year old; Address; Advocate; Affect; Area; Arsenic; Back; Basic Science; Biological; Boston; Cadmium; Caring; Child; Childhood; Chromium; Cognitive; Cognitive aging; Collaborations; Colorado; Commodore; Communication; Communities; Community Health Aides; Community Participation; Copper; Coupled; Data; Education; Elderly; Engineering; Ensure; Environment; Epidemiology; Ethnic Origin; Evaluation; Exposure to; Foundations; Geographic Locations; Goals; Hazardous Substances; Health; Health Personnel; Household; Human; Individual; Industrialization; Instruction; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Life; Low Income Population; Low income; Manganese; Massachusetts; Maternal and Child Health; Measures; Metal exposure; Metals; Methods; Mission; Neighborhood Health Center; Neighborhoods; Parents; Participant; Population; Poverty; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Privatization; Problem Solving; Productivity; Provider; Public Policy; Race; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Risk; Role; Rural; Rural Community; Sampling; Selenium; Soil; Source; Structure of nail of toe; Superfund; System; Technology; Toxic Environmental Substances; Urban Community; Urine; Water; Water Supply; Work; citizen science; community engagement; community partnership; contaminated water; cost; cost effective; drinking water; early life exposure; effectiveness testing; empowerment; exposure pathway; ground water; implementation intervention; innovation; innovative technologies; member; novel; offspring; pregnant; prenatal exposure; remediation; risk mitigation; rural area; rural setting; soil sampling; source localization; stressor; superfund site; toxic metal; urban area; urban children; wasting; water sampling

SUMMARY/ ABSTRACT Communities that are exposed to metals often have limited resources, partnerships, and scientific knowledge that will aid in mitigating the impact of these metals on later-life health risks. Such limitations challenge the ability to prioritize, and mitigate community-relevant exposure pathways and possible health risks. An approach based on bi-directional communication and problem-solving, citizen science, and provision of practical mitigation systems through a co-implemented intervention could provide lasting value to affected communities. The Community Engagement Core (CEC) will serve a critical role in the MEMCARE-SRC by developing a partnership between local residents and stakeholders in rural and urban communities with our SRC team members and trainees to understand community needs and enhance broad understanding of metals and metals mixtures, identify exposure pathways and mitigation approaches, and promote education and public policy to characterize risk and empower community members as advocates of their own health around metals exposures. CEC’s rural community partnership is based in the San Luis Valley, Colorado, which is affected by the Nelson Tunnel/Commodore Waste Pile and Summitville mine Superfund sites. In both areas, groundwater and soil are contaminated with a variety of metals, including arsenic, cadmium, manganese, lead, and chromium. CEC’s urban community partnership is based at Dimock Community Health Center (DCHC) in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, MA. DCHC provides care for individuals living in the surrounding community, which is challenged with household metal exposures, a high burden of environmental metal exposures, and high poverty rates. The CEC will: 1) identify concerns of pregnant women regarding exposures to toxic metals in their community and the impact on offspring health; 2) lead a citizen science effort to collaboratively collect and assess individual metal and metal mixture levels from drinking water and soil samples as well as urine and toenails of pregnant women and children from urban and rural communities; and 3) co-implement a remediation intervention using commercially available water filters and innovative new MEMCARE-SRC developed technologies to reduce community metal exposures, with effectiveness tested by participating community members. The CEC will use methods and technologies to detect hazardous substances in the environment as part of a community-based approach to assess and mitigate the risks of these substances to human health. The CEC is one of the most fundamentally integrated components of the MEMCARE-SRC as it will partner closely in the research of all for SRC research projects and establish lasting and productive partnerships with the community, including routine evaluation of this partnership to ensure bi- directional exchange to provide the community with key information about metal exposures and options for remediation. In addition the CEC will provide an opportunity for MEMCARE-SRC researchers to develop novel solutions that are driven by community concerns surrounding metal exposures on maternal and child health.

摘要/摘要 接触金属的社区通常资源、合作伙伴关系和科学知识有限 这将有助于减轻这些金属对晚年健康风险的影响。 优先考虑并减轻社区相关暴露途径和可能的健康风险的能力。 基于双向沟通和问题解决、公民科学以及提供 通过共同实施干预措施的实际缓解系统可以为受影响的地区提供持久的价值 社区参与核心 (CEC) 将在 MEMCARE-SRC 中发挥关键作用 通过我们的努力，在当地居民和农村和城市社区的利益相关者之间建立伙伴关系 SRC团队成员和学员了解社区需求并增强对 金属和金属混合物，确定暴露途径和缓解方法，并促进教育 和公共政策来描述风险并赋权社区成员作为自身健康的倡导者 CEC 的农村社区合作伙伴关系位于科罗拉多州圣路易斯谷，该地区 受到尼尔森隧道/Commodore 废物堆和 Summitville 矿山超级基金场地的影响， 地下水和土壤受到多种金属污染，包括砷、镉、锰、铅、 CEC 的城市社区合作伙伴关系位于迪莫克社区健康中心 (DCHC)。 马萨诸塞州波士顿罗克斯伯里社区 DCHC 为居住在周边地区的个人提供护理。 社区面临着家庭金属暴露的挑战，环境金属负担沉重 CEC 将： 1) 确定孕妇对暴露的担忧。 社区中的有毒金属及其对后代健康的影响；2) 领导公民科学努力 协作收集和评估饮用水和土壤中的单个金属和金属混合物含量 来自城市和农村社区的孕妇和儿童的样本以及尿液和脚趾甲；以及 3) 使用市售水过滤器和创新的新型水过滤器共同实施修复干预措施 MEMCARE-SRC 开发了减少社区金属暴露的技术，并通过了有效性测试 参与的社区成员将使用方法和技术来检测危险。 作为基于社区的方法的一部分来评估和减轻环境中的物质的风险 这些物质对人类健康至关重要。 MEMCARE-SRC 将在所有 SRC 研究项目的研究中密切合作，并建立持久的 与社区建立富有成效的伙伴关系，包括定期评估这种伙伴关系，以确保双方 定向交换，为社区提供有关金属暴露和选择的关键信息 此外，CEC 将为 MEMCARE-SRC 研究人员提供开发新颖的机会。 这些解决方案是由社区对金属暴露对孕产妇和儿童健康影响的担忧所驱动的。