Panel 2: Interdisciplinary and Community Engagement Approaches: The Case of Lead in the Mississippi Delta
Location
Ballroom
Start Date
18-7-2018 4:10 PM
Description
Environmental health issues are complex and require interdisciplinary and community engagement approaches to better understand them and inform policy. As one example, lead exposure has a number of dangerous neurological effects, including developmental delays and learning deficits. Potential lead exposure through drinking water and paint are areas of concern. Community-engaged research can be used to connect residents, their local organizations, and researchers to address lead exposure. This project aims to implement and evaluate methods of outreach, research, and education to monitor and reduce lead exposure in drinking water. Operating primarily within the Mississippi Delta, partners have worked with community organizational leaders to engage their constituencies around lead. The panel members will discuss the framework, strategies, and findings from this study, combined with attention to using these approaches to inform more effective environmental health policies.
Moderator: John J. Green. University of Mississippi, Center for Population Studies
Panelists: Alex Fratesi. University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies; Dennis Dupree, Jr. Tri-County Workforce Alliance; Kristie Willett. University of Mississippi Department of BioMolecular Science; Stephanie Showalter Otts. University of Mississippi, National Sea Grant Law Center; Susana Cervantes. Delta Directions Consortium and Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center
Relational Format
Conference Proceeding
Recommended Citation
Green, John; Fratesi, Alex; Dupree, Dennis Jr.; Willett, Kristie; Otts, Stephanie Showalter; and Cervantes, Susana, "Panel 2: Interdisciplinary and Community Engagement Approaches: The Case of Lead in the Mississippi Delta" (2018). Delta Regional Forum. 14.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/dr_forum/2018/schedule/14
Panel 2: Interdisciplinary and Community Engagement Approaches: The Case of Lead in the Mississippi Delta
Ballroom
Environmental health issues are complex and require interdisciplinary and community engagement approaches to better understand them and inform policy. As one example, lead exposure has a number of dangerous neurological effects, including developmental delays and learning deficits. Potential lead exposure through drinking water and paint are areas of concern. Community-engaged research can be used to connect residents, their local organizations, and researchers to address lead exposure. This project aims to implement and evaluate methods of outreach, research, and education to monitor and reduce lead exposure in drinking water. Operating primarily within the Mississippi Delta, partners have worked with community organizational leaders to engage their constituencies around lead. The panel members will discuss the framework, strategies, and findings from this study, combined with attention to using these approaches to inform more effective environmental health policies.
Moderator: John J. Green. University of Mississippi, Center for Population Studies
Panelists: Alex Fratesi. University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies; Dennis Dupree, Jr. Tri-County Workforce Alliance; Kristie Willett. University of Mississippi Department of BioMolecular Science; Stephanie Showalter Otts. University of Mississippi, National Sea Grant Law Center; Susana Cervantes. Delta Directions Consortium and Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center
