Community Outreach and Education
Together Sandra Uesugi and Naomi Hirsch coordinate Community Outreach and Education. Sandra and Naomi focus on engaging ways to inform the public on reducing risk to environmental factors.
Community Outreach and Education Core (COEC)
Director: Dave Stone
Mission: To increase the public’s ability to make informed decisions on how to best reduce their risk and susceptibility to environmental factors influencing human health and disease.
Objectives:
- Promote informed decision-making through education on:
- Current EHSC research
- The process and importance of environmental health research
- Environmentally related disease
- Individual susceptibility and risk
- Strengthen and maintain existing community partnerships and seek new relationships to increase the impact of outreach efforts.
- Create community-learning opportunities. Methods will include:
- In-person events such as public workshops and professional trainings.
- Emerging technologies to compliment in-person outreach efforts and to reach new audiences. Web tools include podcasting, video, interactive websites, webinars, and subscription services.
- Evaluate outreach activities to best accomplish the COEC mission.
See information and resources specific to Teachers and Community.
COEC Stakeholder Advisory Board
- Peg Cornell, Science Teacher, Crescent Valley High School, Corvallis, OR
- Jae Douglas, Oregon Department of Human Services, Office of Environmental Public Health, Portland, OR
- Anna Harding, Professor, Department of Public Health, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
- Todd Jarvis, Associate Director, Institute for Water and Watersheds, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
- Ron Sharman, Environmental Technology Instructor, Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, OR
