Principal Investigator Kathleen Vandiver
Co-investigators Bevin Engelward , Amy Fitzgerald
Project Website http://cehs.mit.edu/COEC.html
The Community Outreach and Education Core (COEC) of the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) focuses on educational activities for health care professionals, for the K-12 school community and for families. COEC is directed by Kathy Vandiver and Bevin Engelward, with Amy Fitzgerald as Consultant.
The major objectives of the CEHS COEC are to inform children and adults about the impact of the environment on human health and to empower people to make wise choices about lifestyle and their relationship to the environment.
COEC achieves these objectives by:
(*) translating and "demystifying" the latest research findings in environmental health science(*) lowering the barriers between academia and the K-12 community(*) fostering strong partnerships with community health care and educational groups through activities.