CEET: Mission and Faculty

Community Outreach and Engagement:

Mission and Faculty

Mission

The mission of the Community Outreach and Engagement Core (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.

Diagram showing COEC mission to disseminate information to health care providers, communities, and decision-makers.

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Stakeholder Advisory Board

The COEC Stakeholder Advisory Board is composed of community members representing COEC’s target communities, University members, officials from the local, State, and Federal government, and representatives from environmental interest groups and other relevant organizations (see below). The Board meets semi-annually to ensure that COEC’s activities are designed to optimally meet the needs of communities, health care professionals, and policy makers in improving environmental and public health. The Board periodically reviews the effectiveness of COEC’s programs and advises COEC on recommended changes. In addition, the Board advises COEC on developments within the field of environmental health from the point of view of communities, health care professionals, decision makers, and the University. The Board also recommends new activities and directions as appropriate. When the Board met in July 2008 and January 2009 they made made key recommendations on how the COEC might better serve its target communities. Click here to learn more about the future directions recommended by the 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	Director Emeritus, Community Outreach and Engagement 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, FACOEM	Director, Community Outreach and Engagement Core President, Howarth Occupational and Environmental Consulting, P.C.
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
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, MSS	Deputy Director, Community Outreach and Engagement 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’s Hospital 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
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 Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania

Pamela Dalton, PhD, Monell Chemical Senses Center

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

Jeffrey Field, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Director, TREES Program, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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

Marilyn Howarth, MD, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Jianghong Liu, 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, MSS, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania; Environmental Studies, Franklin & Marshall

Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Alexander S. Whitehead, D. Phil, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Updated April 27, 2009

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