Community Outreach & Translation Core COTC
Aims
- Engage with the community and researchers to identify the environmental health and justice needs and concerns as defined by the community.
- Communicate and disseminate the Center's children's environmental health and justice (CEHJ) research findings to community residents, policy-makers, healthcare professionals and the general public.
Components
- Community Advisory and Stakeholders Board, CASB: As key partners, the CASB members identify community needs, assess our annual plan, guide and engage in the implementation of CEHJ initiatives; and the Center collabortates with our partners' community intiatives.
- CCCEH Youth Advisory Council: The CEHJ Advocates train as peer educators, identify community needs and engage in community educational workshops, outreach activities and community wide events.
- Communications: Center research is disseminated via Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health's Communications Department, scientific publications, news outlets, Center's newsletters and via our partners.
- Community Outreach & Capacity Building: Conduct CEHJ Workshops and provide technical assistance to support the development of a children's environmental health & justice agenda within CBOs, schools and early childhood agencies.
- Educational Materials Development: Develop and disseminate CEHJ educational materials with partnering agencies and community.
COTC TEAM
Anabel Cole, MS, MPH
Officer of Research and COTC Youth Council Coordinator, CUMSPH
Julie Herbstman, MSc, PhD
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, CUMSPH
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, CUMSPH
Peggy Shephard
WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Executive Director
Maricela Ureño, MPH
COTC Program Coordinator, Center for Children's Environmental Health, CUMSPH
Community Engagement Activities
