Bi-Directional Partnerships
The Outreach Core brings scientists into the community and answers pressing questions from community members, usually in partnership with community groups and schools.
Issues that the Outreach Core has developed materials in partnerships about:
- Lead Poisoning Awareness
- Asthma and Allergies
- Basic Toxicology
- Ultraviolet Light and Sun Safety
- Health Effects of Trash and Garbage
- Health Effects of Industrialization
- Environmental Effects on Diabetes
- Diseases and Epidemics
- Arsenic Exposure and Human Health
- Genetically Modified Food
- Environmental Effects of Energy Production
- Environmental Health Studies
- Clinical Trials
- Trichloroethylene (TCE) Contamination
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For each collaboration, the Outreach Core
- Identifies potential partners
- Forms a clear rationale for the partnership; based on the answers to three questions;
- Why is the SWEHSC COEC needed for the collaboration?
- How will COEC assist with the project?
- How will this partnership promote the mission of SWEHSC?
- Recruit appropriate SWEHSC investigators to provides expertise as needed, while conducting and evaluating activities and assessing participant learning.
- The partners
- share knowledge
- chose an EH topic outreach focus that was mutually agreeable to both COEC and the collaborator
- assess the challenges to EH outreach
- together chose outreach methods and resources to disseminate information
- create materials and outreach activities, and
- evaluate the outcomes and outputs of the collaboration.
- The COEC decides the next steps of participation in the partnership with input from the SWEHSC leadership and members of the Stakeholders Advisory Board
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