Presenter: Beverly Obodaifio, Psychology, Global Public Health Scholars
The Community, Engagement, Environmental Justice & Health (CEEJH) Lab focuses on working with communities to help reduce environmental contamination and ensure better sustainability while creating good relationships and partnerships with organizations, health professionals, and policymakers. For this project, I will be interning in this lab and completing various projects. The main projects I will focus on are the AARP project, which is aimed at helping with the technological literacy of the older population, and the Environmental Justice Symposium. These projects focus on educating the set communities in order to give them the resources needed to have a more sustainable solution to the various environmental issues surrounding them. In this internship, I will be aiding in the organization of these programs and the outreach to both the organizations that help with funding and the communities receiving the intended changes. This practicum will help me to explore the benefits of involving the community in the implementation of interventions as well as the importance of the environment on health overall. I will also try to gain a sense of how important community involvement is to the sustainability of an intervention.