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Capability: Community Engagement and Health Education

Project Timeline: 3/1/17 through 6/30/16

Sequoia Foundation, in partnership with Magnitude.io, the San Leandro and Oakland Unified School Districts, developed a Project-Based Learning air quality curriculum that supports NGSS and includes current science on air monitoring, climate change, health impacts, and air quality mitigation strategies. Over a two-phased program, the project delivered four high school air quality lesson plans. The program integrated a hands-on approach in which students collected and analyzed local air quality data using stationary CanSats, devices that use consumer-grade sensors to measure atmospheric temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure, as well as gasses and particulates. Students compared the data with publicly available BAAQMD data, assess human environmental impacts, and learned about sources of pollution and associated health effects. The students also participated in a CanSat balloon launch coordinated by Magnitude.io.

Community engagement activities for the Program began with identifying and meeting with key stakeholders (school staff, families, San Leandro Unified School District teachers/science advisors, and BAAQMD experts to inform curriculum development priorities and plan student-led community events. The two-year project closed out with a student-assisted expo where students set up booths activities to share their projects. The expo was attended by local officials, SLUSD staff, public health experts, and members of the community.

Projects

  1. Social and Climate Change Migration Policy: Government of Tuvalu (South Pacific)
  2. Tobacco and cannabis exposure during pregnancy in six race/ethnic subgroups in California
  3. Studying Mothers and their Children at Risk from In Utero Exposure to Grandmaternal Smoking
  4. Public Health Effects of Increased Prescribe Burns for Wildlife Management
  5. East Bay Diesel Exposures Project (EBDEP)
  6. Expanding California Biomonitoring Database through Statewide Surveillance and Targeted Population Studies
  7. California Region Exposure Study 3 (CARE-3)
  8. California Region Exposure Study 2 (CARE-2)
  9. California Region Exposure Study I (CARE-LA)
  10. California's Strategic Plan Implementation Grants for Asthma
  11. Environmental Health Symposium for Promotores and Community Health Workers
  12. Palos Verdes Shelf Fish Contamination Project
  13. San Francisco Bay Fish Project
  14. Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
  15. Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
  16. California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
  17. Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
  18. PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
  19. Early Childhood Mortality Study
  20. Preterm Markers Study-2006/07
  21. Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth: the Inflammatory Response
  22. Preterm Markers Study-2009/10
  23. Development of a Research-Ready Pregnancy and Newborn Biobank in California
  24. National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
  25. Newborn Blood Spots, Collaborative Project with UCD Public Health Sciences Department
  26. Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia
  27. Evaluation of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Program
  28. Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth Study
  29. Outcome Prediction in Children with Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening
  30. Prenatal and Neonatal Biologic Markers for Autism
  31. Ascertain Environmental Exposure During Pregnancy
  32. Enhancing the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program
  33. CA Title 17 Analysis: Training/Certifying Renovation, Remodeling, and Painting Activities
  34. Children's Health Initiative - Impacts of Childhood Asthma in California
  35. Prenatal Smoke Exposure and Age at Menarche
  36. Selection In Utero: A Test of Competing Explanations
  37. iCARE General Population File
  38. Case-Control Study of Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth
  39. California's Chronic Disease Environmental Health Surveillance System
  40. Design of California's Response and Surveillance System for Childhood Lead Exposures (RASSCLE II) System
  41. Data Mapping California's Blood Lead Testing Reports
  42. California Electronic Blood Lead Reporting Security and Data Transmission Upgrades
  43. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry Data Analysis

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