Completing the Circle

A Model for Effective Community Review of Environmental Health Research

Bibliographic Data

ID14599541
AuthorsBeverly Xaviera Watkins (At the time the research was conducted and completed, Beverly Xaviera Watkins was with the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, and the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York. Peggy M. Shepard and Cecil D. Corbin-Mark are with West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT) for Environmental Justice, Inc, New York.), Beverly Watkins (New York College of Health Professions), Peggy Shepard (New York College of Health Professions), Peggy Morrow Shepard (At the time the research was conducted and completed, Beverly Xaviera Watkins was with the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, and the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York. Peggy M. Shepard and Cecil D. Corbin-Mark are with West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT) for Environmental Justice, Inc, New York.), Cecil D Corbin-Mark (At the time the research was conducted and completed, Beverly Xaviera Watkins was with the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, and the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York. Peggy M. Shepard and Cecil D. Corbin-Mark are with West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT) for Environmental Justice, Inc, New York.)
Year2009
Volume99
IssueS3
PagesS567-S577
Publication date2009-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2008.149369
PMID19890159
PMCIDPMC2774186
OpenAlexW2127601283
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited5

While it is well understood that multiple and cumulative environmental stressors negatively impact health at the community level, existing ethical research review procedures are designed to protect individual research participants but not communities. Increasing concerns regarding the ethical conduct of research in general and environmental and genetic research in particular underscore the need to expand the scope of current human participant research regulations and ethical guidelines to include protections for communities. In an effort to address this issue, West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT), a nonprofit, community-based environmental justice organization in New York City that has been involved in community–academic partnerships for the past decade, used qualitative interview data to develop a pilot model for community review of environmental health science research

Community-based participatory research · Engineering ethics · Environmental health · Environmental justice · Participatory action research · Political science · Public relations · Scope (computer science) · Sociology · Stressor · Engineering · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Ethics in Clinical Research · Medicine · Psychology · Public Health Policies and Education

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