The Community Engagement and Partnership Core is happy to collaborate with community-based organizations, and with scientists who would like to engage with and be inspired by communities.
For more information on possible collaborations, please contact us at cecinspires@unm.edu
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.
To promote multi-directional communication that advances environmental public health knowledge, health literacy, and disease prevention among NM-INSPIRES researchers and community stakeholders in underserved communities by using collaborative processes to ensure Center research is widely and effectively disseminated as well as responsive to local community needs.
The CEC team is led by Dr. Tamar Ginossar, Professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism. The CEC team works with community, academic, and organizational stakeholders to utilize the tools developed through NM-INSPIRES research groups to advance environmental health literacy, environmental public health, and disease prevention. The CEC facilitates multi-directional interactions with diverse New Mexico communities, including Native American communities, active mining communities, and communities along the US-Mexico Border Region, and others throughout New Mexico.
We collaborate with environmental health scientists, citizens, community groups, journalists, clinicians, public health practitioners, and policy makers in order to:
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Dr. Tamar Ginossar - CEC Co-Leader Dr. Ginossar is a Full Professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism and the B.A./M.D. program. Prior to joining the department of Communication and Journalism, Dr. Ginossar held a research faculty appointment with the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Her research focuses on health, environment and science communication as means for increasing health equity. Dr. Ginossar is passionate about working with communities and with interdisciplinary teams to reduce environmental health disparities and is excited about working with our community partners. |
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Talyia Torres - Community Engagement Coordinator Talyia was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She attended UNM and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry with a minor in Psychology. While attending university, she volunteered with various organizations such as Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), Presbyterian Child Life/NICU, Native Health Initiative (NHI), and the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). She gained clinical experience by working as a Rehabilitation technician and Registered Behavior Technician. She conducted research through a Diverticulitis and Sepsis study at UNM and had experience writing research papers with UNMs Biochemistry department and NHIs Healers of Tomorrow program. She is passionate about promoting health equity and equality for Indigenous and Hispanic communities in rural parts of New Mexico through environmental health work. |
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Mallery Quetawki - Artist Mallery Quetawki is from the Pueblo of Zuni in western New Mexico. She is currently the Artist-in-Residence with the Community Environmental Health Program at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy. Mallery has used art to translate scientific ideas, health impacts and research on uranium mines that are currently undergoing study in several Indigenous communities. Her work has been featured on National Institutes of Health websites and published in peer-reviewed journals on environmental health and academic medicine. Currently her work titled, “Our Cultures, Our Languages” is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York City in the Grounded in Clay exhibit in the American Wing through June 2024. Mallery has a large-scale mural titled, “Morning Prayer”, on permanent display at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center which depicts the history of the Zuni People from Creation to modern times. Her oil painting symbolizing the ties between the Grand Canyon and Zuni culture is part of a traveling collaboration called the Zuni Map Art Project. Other noted works include a 12-piece pastel and ink set entitled “What Makes a Zuni?” on permanent display at the Zuni IHS in Blackrock, NM and two murals painted at the Ho’n A:wan Park in Zuni Pueblo. Mallery’s work was part of an interactive Google Doodle that kicked off Native American Heritage Month on November 1, 2021. You can also find her work “Extraction and Remediation” as part of the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts’ Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology traveling exhibit. Examples of Mallery’s work can be found at: www.wakelet.com/@CEHP_Artist |
Using Art and Pueblo Sensibilities to Communicate Health and Scientific Information (NMADRC / CMA Seminar - May 11, 2023)
Mallery Quetawki - Zuni Pueblo
Artist
METALS Superfund Center Translation Core Co-Lead
Mallery has used art since 2007 to help identify the communication gaps between Native American patients and their providers and is now working at the intersection of Environmental Health and the arts and culture of Southwest Native American tribes to help translate research information to those Communities. She creates her art as a trained biologist and through the lens of her Zuni Pueblo upbringing to ensure culturally safe and culturally relevant messaging to Tribal communities.
View the recording here.
Passcode: ADRC#2023
