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Final Progress Reports: Dartmouth College: Research Translation Core

Superfund Research Program

Research Translation Core

Project Leader: Celia Y. Chen
Grant Number: P42ES007373
Funding Period: 2005-2021

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Final Progress Reports

Year:   2020  2013  2007 

The goals of the Translation Core are promoting a two-way exchange informed by an understanding of the social, political and economic contexts that affect the relevance of our science. The translation core’s activities in the past year include:

  • Web development: They continued to update the program web page, including changes to the interface that will increase the site’s usability/accessibility to broad audiences.
  • Technology Transfer: The Translation Core Leader and Celia Chen, the program’s aquatic ecologist, are working with a journal editor on the publication of a series of scientific papers that were generated through a workshop funded through an NIEHS supplemental grant (Fate and Bioavailability of Mercury in the Aquatic Ecosystems and Effects and Human Exposure). The goal of the workshop is to develop a research and biomonitoring agenda that would bring ecosystem science on toxic exposures closer to human health concerns, particularly those related to consumption of fish and seafood. The series will disseminate the product of an ongoing conversation among scientists, resource managers, and regulators to a broader network of investigators.
  • Broad Audiences: Our Research Translation Core Leader, a former science reporter and member of the National Association of Science Writers, provided media training for a group of mercury researchers (including Celia Chen, Leader of project 7, Trophic Transfer of Toxic Metals in Aquatic Food Webs) who were involved in national publicity for the ScienceLinksTM Mercury Matters report and related BioScience papers organized by the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation in January 2007. Serrell has also worked proactively with the science publicist in Dartmouth’s Office of Public Affairs to identify and promote new program findings to the national and regional news media.
  • Government Partnerships: As part of their work to understand the information needs of women responding to mercury fish advisories, the Research Translation Core Leader and others collaborated with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services on a Women’s Fish Consumption and Mercury Awareness outreach project, directed by DES toxicologist Pam Schnepper. The goal of the project was to develop brochures about fish consumption for distribution by women’s health care providers. The Research Translation Core developed a survey to explore the knowledge and attitudes of health care providers and their patients about eating fish. The survey was distributed to 80 New Hampshire practices in order to guide development of a new brochure. A post-survey will be administered to the same group after the brochure has been distributed. The information was also used by the NH DES to develop a grocery-store fish advisory poster.

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