Community Outreach and Education:

Mission and Faculty

Mission

The mission of the Community Outreach and Educational Core of the Center (COEC) is to translate research information from the Center's research and its team of interdisciplinary scientists into tools and resources for community, professional, and Public Health decision-making constituencies in order to improve clinical and public health.  The Center and the COEC are especially focused on the urban environment and particularly on communities with an aging industrial infrastructure, such as Philadelphia and many surrounding communities. We are particularly concerned with the effects on vulnerable populations including children, the elderly, and underserved populations. We are focused on developing new and effective models and approaches to outreach and education to improve community environmental health.

 

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Goals and Objectives

The overall goals of the COEC are to form partnerships with communities to jointly address environmental health issues, to draw on the knowledge base in the research cores, to increase public understanding of the effects of the environment on human health, and to help reduce the effects of harmful exposures. To accomplish these goals the COEC will:

  1. Enhance community environmental health through:
    • Information delivery to the community and individuals;
    • Availability of environmental medicine and toxicology referral services;
    • Organization of workshops and forums on environmental health issues of importance to community; and
    • Facilitation of prevention and intervention programs for environmentally mediated disease, directed at communities and individuals, conducted in a manner that enables communities and individuals to have significant input into the content of the programs and incorporation of the information into their communities.
  2. Educate health care providers in environmental health and toxicology in a manner which enhances their ability to work with communities.
  3. Increase community participation in the research process,facilitate effective two-way communication between the research core investigator and target communities, and engage center investigators in all aspects of the COEC.

 

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Stakeholder Advisory Board

Board Member:

Affiliation:

Andrea Apter, MD

Chief, Allergy and Immunology Section, Presbyterian Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Charles Branas, PhD

Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD

Founder, Children’s Asthma Prevention Program, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Louise Calvin   

President, Palmerton Citizens for a Clean Environment
Fred Conner Co-Chair, BoRit Community Advisory Group, Ambler, PA

Edward Emmett, MD, MS  

Deputy Director, CEET;  Director, Community Outreach and Education Core

Tine Hansen-Turton     

Executive Director, National Nursing Centers Consortium. Philadelphia, PA

Ira Harkavy, PhD

Founding Director and Associate Vice President, Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania

Donna Henry    

Eastwick Community Representative, Director, Southwest Community Development Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Marilyn Howarth, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

John Kennedy, PE

Assistant Director, Southeast Regional Office, PA Department of Environmental Protection,  Norristown, PA

Christina Knapp

Eastern Pennsylvania Outreach Coordinator, PennFuture: Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future, Harrisburg, PA

Linda McCauley, PhD, RN

Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean for Nursing Research, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Judith McKenzie, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Joseph Otis Minott, Esq. Executive Director, Clean Air Council

Kevin Osterhoudt, MD, MSCE, FAAP, FACMT

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine Attending Physician, Medical Director of the Poison Control Center, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Dalton Paxman, PhD   

Regional Director, Region III, Department of Health and Human Services, US Public Health Service

Trevor Penning, PhD

Director, CEET

Richard Pepino, MS     

Deputy Director, Community Outreach and Education Core; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, Franklin & Marshall

Susan Phillips

Senior Vice President for Public Affairs, Chief of Staff, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Melanie Ragin, PhD Health Commissioner, Chester, PA
Hilary Regan Representative, Northern Liberties Neighbors Association, Philadelphia, PA

Pouné Saberi, MD, MPH

Clinician, Sayre Health Center, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Zalika Shani, MPH, CHES Program Coordinator, Children’s Asthma Prevention Program, Children’sHospital of Philadelphia

Reverend Horace Strand

Director, Chester Environmental Partnership, Chester, PA      

Frances Walker

North Philadelphia Senior Citizens Representative, Philadelphia, PA

Maria K. Wolf

Coordinator, Community Outreach and Education, CEET

Elaine Wright, MEd, MBA

Camden, NJ Representative

Alice Wright-Bailey

Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Environmental Advocacy, Norristown, PA

 

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Participating Faculty

Andrea Apter, MD, Allergy and Immunology Section, Presbyterian Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Charles Branas, PhD, Department of Biostatics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania

Tyra Bryant-Stevens, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Primary Care Center, Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Pamela Dalton, PhD, Monell Chemical Senses Center

Edward Emmett, MD, Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Ira Harkavy, PhD, Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania

Mary Hufford, PhD, Center for Folklore and Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania

Howard Kunreuther, PhD, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Jianghong Liu, PhD, RN, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Linda McCauley, PhD, RN, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Judith McKenzie, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Kevin Osterhoudt, MD, MSCE, The Poison Control Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Richard Pepino, MS, Department of Earth and Environmnental Science, University of Pennsylvania; Environmental Studies, Franklin & Marshall


Updated August 4, 2008

 

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