The Community Engagement and Partnership Core is happy to collaborate on environmental health work with community-based organizations, and with scientists who would like to engage with and be inspired by communities.
To prevent environmentally induced adverse health outcomes and reduce the impact of environmental health disparities by sustaining a strong, mutually beneficial community-academic partnership that promotes meaningful community engagement in research of environmental factors in disease initiation, progression, outcomes, and community impacts in New Mexico.
If you are a scientist or a community member who would like to work with us, please email the CEC Lead, Dr. Tamar Ginossar.
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If you would like to join our community list serv to receive updates about our work and environmental health in New Mexico and the Four Corners, please email CEC Coordinator, Talyia MacLeod.
We are funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health to promote multi-directional environmental health communication. This communication advances environmental public health knowledge, health literacy, and disease prevention. It supports collaboration of researchers and community stakeholders in underserved communities to ensure that research is responsive to local community needs and is disseminated widely and effectively.
The CEC team is led by Dr. Tamar Ginossar, Professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism and a Visiting Professor at the College of Pharmacy.
The CEC team works with community, academic, and other stakeholders to advance environmental health literacy, environmental public health, and disease prevention. The CEC facilitates multi-directional interactions with diverse New Mexico communities and the Four Corners Region.
We collaborate with environmental health scientists, citizens, community groups, journalists, clinicians, public health practitioners, and policymakers in order to:
