The BU SBRP Community Outreach Core is designed to offer support or guidance to communities living near to or affected by hazardous waste sites. It has two broad goals: (1) To work with community organizations and members to create a reciprocal understanding of how scientific research is related to their needs and interests, and conversely how those needs and interests relate to goals of scientific research; and (2) To increase the awareness and utility of the research done at this and other Superfund Basic Research Programs for the general public, professionals and community organizations.

Specific work under this core includes: increasing public awareness of environmental health sciences and their applications, particularly with respect to the reproductive and developmental effects of chemicals in the environment; producing and making accessible tools for our community outreach partner organizations and community groups related to environmental health exposures and outcomes; and establishing mechanisms for creating short- and long-term community-researcher relationships.

Contact Barabara Goldoftas (email: bgoldoft@bu.edu ) for more information on this work.