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Apr 19, 2024
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GHHE 000/5270 - Community-Driven Epidemiology: Environmental Justice and Equity (3 cr.)
Description
Low income communities and countries represent largely an unmet challenge for public health policy makers and scientists to conduct research on environmental and occupational hazards that impact their health. This community-driven research requires epidemiologists and other biomedical scientists to modify approaches used in more traditional research in order to engage these communities in identifying problems, provide solutions and insure sustainability. This class introduces concepts and methods in community-driven engagement, environmental equity research, and presents research needs, and offers opportunities for active involvement in problem-solving in environmental justice research through field work in urban and desert settlements. Methodological topics include public health and social justice, study design and analysis in environmental and occupational epidemiology, development of community-driven research questions, community-based participatory research, and preparation of reports that address community and policy needs. Possible topics include pesticide exposure, water scarcity and pollution, nutrition, sanitation, and energy production from biomass.
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