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Community Engagement and Research Translation in Puerto Rico's Northern Karst Region

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: We describe here the social science-environmental health collaboration in PROTECT, the Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats, which is one of eighteen Superfund Research Program centers funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. This collaboration has multiple facets: (1) create a holistic, unified research program that addresses the complexity of environmental contamination, (2) offer research participants an engaged and respectful interaction with the research team, (3) provide cross-training, in which the team's social scientists learn environmental health and the environmental health scientists learn social science, and (4) provide training for graduate students and post-docs in multiple disciplines in this burgeoning form of collaboration.

Source: NEW SOLUTIONS A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy

DOI: 10.1177/1048291116667715

Authors: Carmen M. V. Vega, Phil Brown, Colleen Murphy, Abigail Figueroa, Jóse Cordero, Akram Alshawabkeh

Institutions: University of Puerto Rico System, Northeastern University, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus

Language: English

Topic: Community Health and Development

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences