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Program
Background & Support
For
more than ten years, the Community Outreach and Education Core
at the CEEH has developed curriculum materials and hosted
teacher workshops that help bridge the gap between schools
and the research that takes place at the center. This focus
on K-12 education has resulted in the development of print
and electronic classroom materials that cover a variety of
basic environmental health topics.
COEC
staff have also been involved in numerous outreach efforts
to communities that are affected by environmental health issues.
Our work with these groups has resulted in a number of collaborative
projects such as a study of seafood consumption patterns among
Asian and Pacific Islanders in King County, a successful statewide
town meeeting, and a pilot project to help the Shoalwater
Bay Tribe evaluate the safety of local shellfish supplies.
COEC
efforts are also supported by the UW
Superfund Basic Research Program, the Washington
Department of Labor and Industries, the Center
for Child Environmental Health Risks, the UW Pediatric
Environmental Health Specialty Unit, and the NIEHS EHSIC
Grants Program.
2005
Highlights
2003
progress report
(link to NIEHS site) |
