Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Community-Engaged Environmental Health Research in Appalachian Virginia

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dc.contributor.authorSatterwhite, Emily M.en
dc.contributor.authorBell, Shannon E.en
dc.contributor.authorMarr, Linsey C.en
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Christopher K.en
dc.contributor.authorPrussin, Aaron J. IIen
dc.contributor.authorButtling, Lauren G.en
dc.contributor.authorPan, Jinen
dc.contributor.authorGohlke, Julia M.en
dc.contributor.departmentCivil and Environmental Engineeringen
dc.contributor.departmentPopulation Health Sciencesen
dc.contributor.departmentReligion and Cultureen
dc.contributor.departmentSociologyen
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Neuroscienceen
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-16T12:22:21Zen
dc.date.available2020-03-16T12:22:21Zen
dc.date.issued2020-03-05en
dc.date.updated2020-03-13T13:09:09Zen
dc.description.abstractThis article describes a collaboration among a group of university faculty, undergraduate students, local governments, local residents, and U.S. Army staff to address long-standing concerns about the environmental health effects of an Army ammunition plant. The authors describe community-responsive scientific pilot studies that examined potential environmental contamination and a related undergraduate research course that documented residents’ concerns, contextualized those concerns, and developed recommendations. We make a case for the value of resource-intensive university–community partnerships that promote the production of knowledge through collaborations across disciplinary paradigms (natural/physical sciences, social sciences, health sciences, and humanities) in response to questions raised by local residents. Our experience also suggests that enacting this type of research through a university class may help promote researchers’ adoption of “epistemological pluralism”, and thereby facilitate the movement of a study from being “multidisciplinary” to “transdisciplinary”.en
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dc.identifier.citationSatterwhite, E.; Bell, S.E.; Marr, L.C.; Thompson, C.K.; Prussin, A.J., II; Buttling, L.; Pan, J.; Gohlke, J.M. Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Community-Engaged Environmental Health Research in Appalachian Virginia. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 1695.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051695en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/97328en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMDPIen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectenvironmental healthen
dc.subjectinterdisciplinary researchen
dc.subjecttransdisciplinary researchen
dc.subjectcommunity-engaged researchen
dc.subjectAppalachiaen
dc.titleBuilding Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Community-Engaged Environmental Health Research in Appalachian Virginiaen
dc.title.serialInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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