Community Engagement

In this video, Clare McCarthy explains the benefits and best practices of community-engaged research in an environmental health research context. She describes the spectrum along which community-engaged research can occur from "inform and outreach" to "co-create and empower." Her presentation includes interactive exercises designed to help the audience apply community engagement principles to their own environmental health research. Funding to develop this presentation was provided by the University of Washington Center for Health and the Global Environment (REACH).

A webinar co-hosted by UW’s EDGE Center and the Oregon State University/ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Superfund Research Center explored how researchers can ethically partner with Tribal communities. Featured panelists were Patrick Freeland of the Wind Clan of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma and Senior Tribal Climate Resilience Liaison with the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians and Will Makoyiisaaminaa of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana and Assistant Professor of Education Leadership at Western Washington University.

This report summarizes the goals of the Fifth Season project, the process for creating the audiovisual installation and results from an evaluation survey conducted with people who had interacted with it.

A two-sided handout developed for a Public Health Café. It is aimed at a general audience and provides a brief description of the science behind GMOs, issues related to regulation of GMOs, and a list of links where you can learn more.