Environmental Health Coalition

The Environmental Health Collaborative’s project, “Land Use Planning to Reduce Asthma in National City,” focuses on addressing poor land use planning. The subcontractor will develop a collaborative approach amongst residents and city officials to implement the pollution reduction element of National City’s new Westside Specific Plan and secure the relocation of 3-5 auto body shops from the vicinity of a neighborhood elementary school. They will measure their success by tracking the community’s participation in meetings, attending hearings, and testifying. They will also look at the reduction of air pollution at the neighborhood elementary school due to the relocations, as well as the number of successfully relocated auto body shops.

Chicago Asthma Consortium

The goal of the Chicago Asthma Consortium’s project, “Crossing the Information Divide: What Do Inner City Communities of Color Want to Know About Health and How Do They Prefer to Learn It?” is to formally develop a brief, low-literacy survey in English and Spanish that identifies which asthma-relevant health information is of interest to community members, how they currently access information, how decisions are made with regard to the quality and relevance of health information, and which avenues might be most effective in delivering asthma health information to community members in the future. They will collect data that informs the approach to conducting effective surveys in the targeted neighborhoods and will measure their success with the production of the survey tool and securing funding to conduct a systematic, representative survey.

Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland

The goal of Children’s Hospital & Research Center’s project, “C³PLAT: An innovative systems change approach to build capacity among California’s new generation of pediatricians to become environmental health advocates, is “to train the next generation’s pediatricians to be more sympathetic, better informed, and better equipped to understand and address their patients’ environmental risk factors, and be better able to advocate for pro-health policies for their patients and the public.” This curriculum fits into the “library” of new and revised curricula being developed over time by the California Collaborative in Community Pediatrics and Legislative Advocacy Training (C³PLAT), which reaches 760 residents per year in California. They will measure whether the curriculum positively changes the way the residents practice preventative care and manage asthma.