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Edith Parker, DrPH¹, Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, BSN², Katherine Edgren, MSW³, Yolanda Hill, MSW⁴, Barbara Israel, DrPH⁵, Toby Lewis, MD⁶, Paul Max⁴, Sonya Grant Pierson, MSW⁷, Thomas Robins⁶, Zachary Rowe⁸, Maria Salinas⁹, Donele Wilkins¹⁰, and J. Timothy Dvonch, PhD⁶. (1) Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 109 S. Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, 734-763-0087, edithp@umich.edu, (2) Steering Committee Member, 259 Cherry Pointe Dr., Canton, MI 48187, (3) Health Promotion and Community Relations, University of Michigan Health Services, 207 Fletcher, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, (4) Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, 1151 Taylor, Detroit, MI 48202, (5) Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan, 109 S Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, (6) Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 109 S. Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, (7) Warren Conner Development Coalition, 11148 Harper, Detroit, MI 48213, (8) Friends of Parkside, PO Box 13168, Detroit, MI 48213, (9) CHASS, 5635 W. Ford, Detroit, MI 48209, (10) Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, 8469 E. Jefferson, Detroit, MI 48214

There is an understandable lack of trust on the part of many communities of environmental health studies in which the results are rarely shared with the communities involved, and it is not clear how the findings will benefit the community. A crucial aspect of community collaborative environmental health research is ensuring dissemination of the research throughout the community, and involving community partners in the dissemination process. Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA) is a community-academic partnership involving representatives from community-based organizations, a local health department, an integrated care system and academia. In this presentation, we will describe the processes undertaken by CAAA to disseminate the results of a combined health and exposure effects and intervention study conducted in Detroit, Michigan. We will discuss the dissemination procedures developed and adopted by the partnership and how these were implemented. Specific examples will be given of the types of dissemination CAAA undertook (for example, written materials, community forums, presentations at public hearings), and the role of community partners in the dissemination process. We will examine how the community and academic partners worked together to ensure that the information was accurate, culturally appropriate, useful and understandable to the lay community. Some of the challenges of dissemination and strategies for overcoming these challenges as well as lessons learned and recommendations for other environmental health projects will also be presented.

Learning Objectives:

• Articulate the importance of dissemination of research results to the broader community in which the research is undertaken.
• Identify the different methods for dissemination of research results to the community from which the data is collected.
• Articulate at least 2 challenges and strategies to overcome those challenges to the disseminating research results to the broader community.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No