Community Outreach and Education

The Community Outreach and Education Core (COEC) of the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility translates Center research into knowledge that can be used to improve public health and educates the public about how individual and group susceptibilities interact with environmental factors to cause disease.

Activities

The COEC staff has worked with Center scientists and North Carolina citizens to:

• Develop educational and informational materials to share innovative CEHS research with diverse audiences.


• Conduct workshops for community-based and professional organizations, educators, and youth on a variety of environmental health issues.


• Participate in a variety of working groups, committees, and partnerships with state agencies and non-profit organizations to increase awareness of relevant environmental health research.


• Coordinate science seminars at the NC Division of Public Health to share the results of CEHS research with the Division's Public Health Management Team.


• Utilize multimedia programming to reach broad and varied audiences with prevention messages related to environmental health.


• Publish the CEHS Sentinel newsletter.

To learn more about the issues we work on, explore the links below.

• Environmental Health

Environmentally Related Diseases

• Asthma
• Childhood Lead Poisoning
• Breast Cancer
• Skin Cancer
• Obesity

Core Director and Members

Director:

Kathleen Gray, kgray@unc.edu, 966-9799

Personnel:

Neasha Graves, neasha_graves@unc.edu, 966-3746
Amy MacDonald, amyjmac@email.unc.edu, 966-2463