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Session: Coordinating the Environmental Health Research Aims and Methods of Scientists and Affected Communities
4210.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Roundtable
Coordinating the Environmental Health Research Aims and Methods of Scientists and Affected Communities
This roundtable will examine the scientific method of coordinating environmental health research and other methods to observe health effects in various communities. Some topics that will be addressed by the presenters are as follows: Healthy public housing initiatives; Social and environmental determinants of hypertension in African-Americans; Eliminating health disparities through community-based research, training, and outreach; Lessons learned from a community outreach study in underrepresented minority populations; Determining health risks fom toxic waste sites.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: Articulate the process of implementing a multi-stakeholder community based participatory research infrastructure and project in a unique rural setting; Identify at least 3 ways community members can be directly involved in the design and implementation of an environmental health study; Discuss the need to have a dynamic organizational structure capable of responding to inevitable challenges that are present in complex community-based projects; Articulate procedures for assessing exposure to chemicals within cultural context; Identify the failures and successes of community based research on the environmental determinants of hypertension, and health disparities in minority populations; Discuss issues related to conducting health effects and intervention/education research in southeast Asian immigrant populations; Describe the evidence linking lead exposure and stress with disparities in hypertension in African-Americans.
Moderator(s):Kacee Deener, MPH
Table 1Determining Health Risks from Toxic Waste: An Integrative Bio-Psychosocial Approach
Robert Wright, MD, Rosalind Wright, MD, Rebecca Jim, Earl Hatley, Mark Osborn, MD, Adrienne Ettinger, ScD, Karen E. Peterson, RD, DSc, James Shine, PhD, Jonathon Hook, Howard Hu, MD ScD
Table 2Healthy Public Housing Initiative: A city, tenant and academic collaborative
John Spengler, PhD, Jonathan Levy, ScD, H. Patricia Hynes, MS, MA, Doug Brugge, Kate Bennett, Margaret Reid, Laura Bradeen, Mae Bradley, Kim Vermeer, John Snell
Table 3Social and environmental determinants of hypertension in African Americans: Project CHOICE in the rural community of Gadsden County Florida
Richard D. Gragg, PhD, Cynthia M. Harris, PhD, DABT, Cynthia H. Harris, PhD, Saleh M. M. Rahman, MBBS, PhD, MPH, Selina Rahman, MBBS, PhD, MPH, Angela Burgess
Table 4Community participation in the study design and implementation of a health and exposure effects study: Community Action Against Asthma
Thomas Robins, Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, BSN, Katherine Edgren, MSW, Barbara Israel, DrPH, Toby Lewis, MD, Edith Parker, DrPH, Paul Max, Sonya Grant Pierson, MSW, Maria Salinas, Donele Wilkins, J. Timothy Dvonch, PhD
Table 5A partnership approach to disseminating results of a combined health and exposure effects and intervention study: Community Action Against Asthma
Edith Parker, DrPH, Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, BSN, Katherine Edgren, MSW, Yolanda Hill, MSW, Barbara Israel, DrPH, Toby Lewis, MD, Paul Max, Sonya Grant Pierson, MSW, Thomas Robins, Zachary Rowe, Maria Salinas, Donele Wilkins, J. Timothy Dvonch, PhD
Table 6Conceptual model for eliminating health disparities through community based research, training and outreach in urban and rural settings: Project CHOICE
Saleh M. M. Rahman, MBBS, PhD, MPH, Richard D. Gragg, PhD, Brian K. Gibbs, PhD, Cynthia M. Harris, PhD, DABT, Cynthia H. Harris, PhD, Howard Hu, MD ScD, Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD
Table 7Lessons from conducting community-based research in a Southeast Asian immigrant population
Susan Schantz, PhD, Anne Sweeney, PhD, Vicky Persky, MD, Jennifer Peck, PhD, Donna Gasior, MS
Table 8Social and Environmental Determinants of Hypertension in African-Americans: Project CHOICE in the Urban Community of Roxbury, Boston
Brian K. Gibbs, PhD, Genita Johnson, Junenette Peters, ScD, Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, Eileen McNeely, PhD, Nancy Krieger, PhD, Howard Hu, MD ScD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Environment
Endorsed by:Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Community Health Workers SPIG; Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Public Health Nursing

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