"Building Equitable Partnerships for Environmental Justice" at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference
In September of 2018, collaborators from the UC Davis EHSC's Community Engagement Core and the University of Michigan's Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) Community Engagement Core presented their "Building Equitable Partnerships for Environmental Justice" curriculum at the annual American Public Health Association Conference in San Diego, California. The curriculum is a two-day workshop that walks researchers and community groups through the essential tenets of community-based participatory research. It covers everything from building equitable partnerships and understanding power dynamics, to leveraging university resources and more.
The curriculum is freely available on both the UC Davis EHSC and U-M M-LEEaD's websites, and is available for download from the link below. |
Annual PEPH Meeting 2017
On the 18th and 19th of September, graduate student Krista Haapanen had the opportunity to represent UC Davis at “Engaging Diverse Partners: Strategies to Address Environmental Public Health,” a joint NIEHS meeting of the Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) network and Disaster Research Response (DR2) program. The meeting, which took place on the NIEHS campus in Durham, North Carolina, brought together scholars and advocates from across the country to focus on successful approaches for engaging with diverse partners.
June CSTAC Meeting
June 28th, 2017 marked this year’s first bi-annual meeting of the Environmental Health Sciences Center’s Community Stakeholder’s Advisory Committee (CSTAC). Attendees, which included both CSTAC members and EHSC researchers, traveled from throughout the Central Valley to UC Merced where they spent the day exchanging updates, welcoming new members, and discussing the dimensions of equitable community-university research partnerships.
Environmental Health Sciences Academy Day
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The Environmental Health Sciences Core Center's debut Academy Day, which took place on March 21, 2017, was a day of short seminars and interactive workshops for community members and nonprofit partners. Topics related to a Core Center funded, collaborative water quality project between Dr. Swee Teh's lab and the Community Water Center. Its broad goal was to build the capacity of academics and nonprofit partners to actively and meaningfully inform and engage in research collaborations.
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