Sacoby Miguel Wilson
University Of Maryland College Pk Campus
Project start date: 2009-09-21
Project end date: 2013-06-30
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ASSESSMENT OF A NOVEL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP
Sacoby Miguel Wilson, Research Assistant Professor
University Of South Carolina At Columbia, 901 Sumter Street, Columbia, Sc 29208
Grant 5R03ES017357-02 from National Institute Of Environmental Health Sciences
Abstract: The proposed research seeks to address critical gaps in the scientific knowledge on the effectiveness of community-university partnerships in empowering vulnerable communities such as environmental justice (EJ) communities to use science to address local public health issues. Unfortunately, there are few examples of federally funded research programs that provide information on research approaches and partnerships appropriate to build trust and confidence of EJ populations in scientific research that effectively addresses their needs. Additionally, few of these programs can act as models to help achieve the long-term objectives of the NIH Public Trust Initiative. We submit that the work of the West End Revitalization Association (WERA) is a good model for the NIH Public Trust Initiative. WERA, a community-based environmental protection organization based in Mebane, North Carolina, founded a community-university partnership to address the lack of basic amenities, environmental injustice, and public health issues in local black communities. WERA developed the community-owned and managed research (COMR) framework as the foundation for its community-university partnership. To assess the value of WERA´s community-university partnership in informing and engaging the public, particularly vulnerable EJ populations through scientific research, we will meet the following aims 1) evaluate the impact of COMR and research and training core of the community-university partnership in improving scientific literacy and community´s trust in the research process; 2) assess the impact of the career and pipeline development core of the partnership in improving scientific literacy of local youth and students and their interest in public health research; and 3) evaluate the impact of the collaborative problem solving model core of WERA´s community-university partnership in helping to increase scientific literacy, communication, collaboration, trust, and equity between WERA and its partners. The proposed study is novel because it is uniquely positioned to explore WERA´s community-university partnership because of the long-term relationship between the investigators. The project is also significant because it will document that scientific literacy, confidence in research process, participation in scientific research, and collaboration did increase in local EJ communities due to WERA´s community-university partnership and use of the COMR framework. We believe that the evaluation results will make a positive contribution to the efforts of the NIH Public Trust Initiative and other entities interested in alternative approaches and models to engage vulnerable communities in applied health research
Keywords: Address; African American; Afro American; Afroamerican; Air; Animals; Asthma; Awareness; Awarenesses; Black Populations; Black or African American; Bronchial Asthma; Cancers; Cardiac Diseases; Cardiac Disorders; Chemicals; Collaborations; Color; Communication; Communities; Data; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Effectiveness; Environmental Hazards; Environmental Protection; Evaluation; Faculty; Family; Foundations; Funding; Hazardous Waste Sites; Health; Heart Diseases; Institutes; Investigators; Knowledge; Laws; Lead; Malignant Neoplasms; Malignant Tumor; Methods and Techniques; Methods, Other; Mission; Modeling; Mortality; Mortality Vital Statistics; Movement; NIH; National Institutes of Health; National Institutes of Health (U.S.); North Carolina; Operation; Operative Procedures; Operative Surgical Procedures; Outcome; Pb element; Pilot Projects; Plants; Plants, General; Play; Pollution; Population; Position; Positioning Attribute; Problem Solving; Process; Programs (PT); Programs [Publication Type]; Public Health; Public Health Schools; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Researchers; Risk; Role; Schools, Public Health; Science; Scientist; Societies; South Carolina; Students; Surgical; Surgical Interventions; Surgical Procedure; Techniques; Trust; Underserved Population; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vulnerable Populations; Waste Sites, Hazardous; Water Pollution; Water contamination; Work; Youth; Youth 10-21; base; black American; body movement; career; diabetes; empowered; environmental justice; experience; heart disorder; heavy metal Pb; heavy metal lead; high risk; improved; interest; land use; landfill; literacy; low socioeconomic status; malignancy; meetings; neoplasm/cancer; non-compliance; novel; parity; pilot study; programs; public health medicine (field); public health research; public trust; social role; surgery; trafficking; under served population; underserved people
Project start date: 2008-09-22
Project end date: 2010-08-31
Budget start date: 1-SEP-2009
Budget end date: 31-AUG-2010
PFA/PA: RFA-OD-07-001
5R03ES017357-02 (2009): $36000
3R03ES017357-02S1 (2009): $16946
1R03ES017357-01 (2008): $36000
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF ENVIRONMENT SECTION AT APHA ANNUAL MEETING
Sacoby Miguel Wilson
University Of South Carolina At Columbia, 901 Sumter Street, Columbia, Sc 29208
Grant 1R13ES019799-01 from National Institute Of Environmental Health Sciences
Abstract: Project Summary. The138th Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Public Health Association (APHA) will be held from November 6 - 10 in Denver, Colorado. The theme for this year´s conference, with an anticipated 12,000 in attendance, is Social Justice A Public Health Imperative. While the APHA is a large organization, it relies on its 27 sections to plan most of its conference sessions and special events. The Environment Section of the APHA, in its 99th year, is focusing its annual meeting agenda on environmental public health and social justice issues, particularly how social injustice can lead to negative environmental conditions and outcomes for disadvantaged, vulnerable, and underserved populations. Its call for full session proposals and s focused on the overall theme of social justice, and on the Section´s emphasis on social justice issues as related to environmental public health. Ultimately the Section strives to offer a wide variety of sessions, posters, plenary sessions, and special events to a diverse audience, representing academicians, health professionals, community members, and students, especially those from underrepresented groups. The Environment Section has the following aims for its educational activities at the 138th APHA Annual Meeting 1)to educate conference participants about research on environmental public health issues related to social justice; 2)to increase collaborations between community groups, health professionals, and academicians through its program activities, especially sessions in which scientists and community members can share ideas and discuss common goals; 3)to educate students, especially those from underserved and minority communities, about social justice, environmental justice, and environmental health, encouraging them to pursue careers in public health research and practice and 4) to provide a forum for dissemination of results about research in social justice, environmental justice, and environmental health. The Environment Section´s agenda for the Annual Meeting will benefit participants greatly, from community members who will have the opportunity to network with other community groups and with environmental health scientists, to students who will have the ability to connect with potential mentors, and to researchers who will learn about community- based environmental justice initiatives. The program for the Environment Section at the 2010 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting will greatly benefit participants, particularly community members and students from underserved populations, who will have the opportunity to learn about community-driven efforts to address environmental justice and health issues; community-university partnerships for environmental health; how to build community capacity to address environmental health and justice issues; and best practices associated with effective community based participatory research efforts
Keywords: 0-11 years old; APHA; Address; American Public Health Association; Child; Child Youth; Children (0-21); Collaborations; Colorado; Communities; Development; Disadvantaged; Educational Activities; Ensure; Environment; Environmental Health; Environmental Health Science; Food; Goals; Health; Health Care Professional; Health Professional; Health profession; Healthcare professional; Healthcare worker; Human, Child; Hydrogen Oxide; Individual; Infrastructure; Investigators; Justice; Lead; Learning; Lectures; Lectures (PT); Lectures [Publication Type]; Mentors; Outcome; Participant; Pb element; Philadelphia; Poisons; Posters; Posters [Publication Type]; Programs (PT); Programs [Publication Type]; Public Health; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Researchers; Scientist; Social Impacts; Social Justice; Special Event; Students; System; System, LOINC Axis 4; Toxic Chemical; Toxic Substance; Underrepresented Minority; Underserved Population; Universities; Water; ing; air cleaner; base; career; children; climate change; community based participatory research; conference; design; designing; environmental justice; experience; global climate change; global environment; global environmental; health disparities; health disparity; heavy metal Pb; heavy metal lead; lectures; meetings; member; poison; posters; programs; public health medicine (field); public health relevance; public health research; social; symposium; toxic compound; under served population; under-represented minority; underserved minority; underserved people; youngster
Relevance: The program for the Environment Section at the 2010 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting will greatly benefit participants, particularly community members and students from underserved populations, who will have the opportunity to learn about community-driven efforts to address environmental justice and health issues; community-university partnerships for environmental health; how to build community capacity to address environmental health and justice issues; and best practices associated with effective community based participatory research efforts
Project start date: 2010-09-15
Project end date: 2011-08-31
Budget start date: 15-SEP-2010
Budget end date: 31-AUG-2011
PFA/PA: PA-10-071
1R13ES019799-01 (2010): $11000
USE OF A COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP TO ELIMINATE ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS
Sacoby Miguel Wilson, Research Assistant Professor
University Of South Carolina At Columbia, 901 Sumter Street, Columbia, Sc 29208
Grant 3R21ES017950-01S1 from National Institute Of Environmental Health Sciences
Abstract: In North Charleston, South Carolina, a paucity of research has occurred to understand the cumulative impact of sources of air, water, and soil pollution including historic industrial activities, operation of the local incinerator, several Superfund sites, and heavily-trafficked highways have on the overall exposure burden on these economically disadvantaged communities. Limited monitoring and community-based surveillance has occurred to understand the spatial and temporal variation of the exposure of local populations to pollution released from the myriad industrial, point, and non-point sources in the region and how this cumulative exposure has affected environmental quality, community health, quality of life, and neighborhood vitality and sustainability. Without action-oriented community-driven research and advocacy efforts, effective progress will not be made in reducing exposure and preventing pollution. Our long-term goal is to use a community- university partnership between the Low-Country Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC) and the University of South Carolina (USC), the community-based participatory research (CBPR) framework, and collaborative- problem solving model (CPSM) principles to address environmental injustice, public health, and revitalization issues in North Charleston, SC. To achieve this long-term goal, we propose the following specific aims 1) Assess the geographic distribution of pollution sources in North Charleston, SC, 2) Specific Aim #2 Quantify levels of PM and heavy metals near industrial and non-point sources of pollution in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in North Charleston, SC, and 3) Increase community capacity to reduce exposure, prevent pollution, and improve public health through community-based outreach, education, and training. The project is novel and significant because it will study the cumulative impacts of pollution on the environment and health of maximally exposed populations in the Charleston area for the first time. The project is innovative because we will employ the CBPR framework and CPSM principles to 1) educate impacted residents about local pollution sources, 2) collect evidence on community exposure to PM and heavy metals emitted from local pollution sources, 3) build community confidence in scientific research, and 4) empower residents to obtain environmental justice and drive changes in local environmental health policy. The findings will have significance because they will have important implications for pollution prevention, risk reduction activities and strategies, and environmental health policy for economically disadvantaged and overburdened communities in the in the Charleston area. There is limited information on the spatial distribution and cumulative impact of pollution sources in the Charleston region particularly for disadvantaged populations. This project is relevant to public health because it will provide evidence on the cumulative impact that multiple sources of air, water, and soil pollution have on disadvantaged neighborhoods in North Charleston, South Carolina. This project is also relevant because it use participatory education, outreach, and training to educate residents about their local environmental health risks and ways that they can reduce their exposure and prevention pollution in their local communities
Keywords: Address; Advocacy; Affect; Air; Air Pollution; Area; Camping; Censuses; Chemicals; Collaborations; Communities; Community Health; Country; Development; Disadvantaged; Economically Deprived; Economically Deprived Population; Education and Outreach; Educational workshop; Environment; Environmental Hazards; Environmental Health; Environmental Health Science; Exposure to; Geographic Distribution; Goals; Health; Health Policy; Heavy Metals; Hydrogen Oxide; Instruction and Outreach; Knowledge; Lead; Linear Regressions; Lung diseases; Maps; Measurement; Metal exposure; Methods; Modeling; Monitor; Movement; Neighborhoods; Operation; Operative Procedures; Operative Surgical Procedures; Particulate Matter; Pb element; Plants; Plants, General; Pollution; Pollution Prevention; Population; Prevalence; Problem Solving; Public Health; Pulmonary Diseases; Pulmonary Disorder; QOL; Quality of life; Research; Respiratory Disease; Respiratory Disorder; Respiratory System Disease; Respiratory System Disorder; Risk; Risk Reduction; Science; Site; Soil; Source; South Carolina; Spatial Distribution; Students; Surface; Surgical; Surgical Interventions; Surgical Procedure; Time; Training; Training and Education; Training and Outreach; Tutoring and Outreach; Universities; Water; Workshop; base; body movement; burden to community; community based participatory research; community burden; empowered; environmental justice; environmental stressor; experience; exposure to metal; hazard; health care policy; heavy metal Pb; heavy metal lead; improved; innovate; innovation; innovative; land use; lung disorder; novel; pollutant; prevent; preventing; public health medicine (field); public health relevance; soil pollution; spatial temporal variation; superfund site; surgery; trafficking
Relevance: Project Relevance There is limited information on the spatial distribution and cumulative impact of pollution sources in the Charleston region particularly for disadvantaged populations. This project is relevant to public health because it will provide evidence on the cumulative impact that multiple sources of air, water, and soil pollution have on disadvantaged neighborhoods in North Charleston, South Carolina. This project is also relevant because it use participatory education, outreach, and training to educate residents about their local environmental health risks and ways that they can reduce their exposure and prevention pollution in their local communities
Project start date: 2009-09-21
Project end date: 2013-06-30
Budget start date: 29-MAY-2010
Budget end date: 31-JUL-2010
PFA/PA: RFA-ES-09-001
3R21ES017950-01S1 (2010): $42819
5R21ES017950-02 (2010): $303104
1R21ES017950-01 (2009): $309590
Sacoby Miguel Wilson
University Of South Carolina At Columbia
Project start date: 2009-09-21
Project end date: 2013-06-30