The long-term objective of this project is to improve? environmental health conditions in the rural South by? strengthening education and research collaborations between? community organizations, environmental scientists and medical? providers. Low land prices, wage levels and lack of political? influence have made the Black Belt of the rural South, which is? home to most rural African Americans in the USA, susceptible to? polluting industries and toxic wastes. Our project seeks to make? a long-term impact on environmental injustice by facilitating? technical and political capacities of rural African Americans to? be partners in research, to engage in community education, and to? organize around environmental health issues. Our project builds? on a current NIEHS-funded collaboration led by the Concerned? Citizens of Tillery (CCT), located in the eastern North Carolina? Black Belt. The Tillery area is 98 percent African American.? Community Health and Environmental Reawakening brings together? CCT, the NC Student Rural Health Coalition, and environmental? health scientists from the University of North Carolina. Over? the last 3 years we built new partnerships with community-based? organizations and the NC State Health Department, sponsored the? first NC Environmental Justice Summit, and conducted original? environmental Justice and health effects research. With? collaboration of the State Health Department, our new coalition? will expand environmental health knowledge of North Carolina? residents, students and health professionals; involve community-? based organizations in community-driven health research; promote? community and medical provider involvement in prevention and? remediation of environmental hazards; and, develop field methods? for exposure assessment and medical monitoring to support? innovative community-based research on health hazards of? intensive livestock operations.?

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Type
Education Projects (R25)
Project #
5R25ES008206-08
Application #
6660838
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZES1-JPM-B (RT))
Program Officer
Srinivasan, Shobha
Project Start
1996-09-01
Project End
2004-08-31
Budget Start
2003-09-01
Budget End
2004-08-31
Support Year
8
Fiscal Year
2003
Total Cost
$230,955
Indirect Cost
Name
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department
Public Health & Prev Medicine
Type
Schools of Public Health
DUNS #
608195277
City
Chapel Hill
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27599
Heaney, Christopher D; Wing, Steve; Campbell, Robert L et al. (2011) Relation between malodor, ambient hydrogen sulfide, and health in a community bordering a landfill. Environ Res 111:847-52
Resnik, David B; Wing, Steven (2007) Lessons learned from the Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study. Am J Public Health 97:414-8
Norton, Jennifer M; Wing, Steve; Lipscomb, Hester J et al. (2007) Race, wealth, and solid waste facilities in North Carolina. Environ Health Perspect 115:1344-50
Mirabelli, Maria C; Wing, Steve; Marshall, Stephen W et al. (2006) Race, poverty, and potential exposure of middle-school students to air emissions from confined swine feeding operations. Environ Health Perspect 114:591-6
Mirabelli, Maria C; Wing, Steve; Marshall, Stephen W et al. (2006) Asthma symptoms among adolescents who attend public schools that are located near confined swine feeding operations. Pediatrics 118:e66-75
Morland, Kimberly; Diez Roux, Ana V; Wing, Steve (2006) Supermarkets, other food stores, and obesity: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. Am J Prev Med 30:333-9
Mirabelli, Maria C; Wing, Steve (2006) Proximity to pulp and paper mills and wheezing symptoms among adolescents in North Carolina. Environ Res 102:96-100
Avery, Rachel C; Wing, Steve; Marshall, Stephen W et al. (2004) Odor from industrial hog farming operations and mucosal immune function in neighbors. Arch Environ Health 59:101-8
Massing, Mark W; Rosamond, Wayne D; Wing, Steven B et al. (2004) Income, income inequality, and cardiovascular disease mortality: relations among county populations of the United States, 1985 to 1994. South Med J 97:475-84
Wing, Steve (2003) Objectivity and ethics in environmental health science. Environ Health Perspect 111:1809-18

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