Satterwhite, Emily M.Bell, Shannon E.Marr, Linsey C.Thompson, Christopher K.Prussin, Aaron J. IIButtling, Lauren G.Pan, JinGohlke, Julia M.2020-03-162020-03-162020-03-05Satterwhite, 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.http://hdl.handle.net/10919/97328This 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”.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalenvironmental healthinterdisciplinary researchtransdisciplinary researchcommunity-engaged researchAppalachiaArticle - Refereed2020-03-13https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051695