Community Engagement Core
Trains and empowers health care learners and professionals and California policymakers to improve EH literacy, promote health equity, and reduce health disparities

What We Do

The EaRTH Center Community Engagement Core (CEC) creates transformational systems-level change in medical education and evidence-based decision-making to improve public health and reduce health inequities by:

  • Training future health care leaders by integrating environmental health into medical education courses and curricula
  • Empowering health care professionals to act on environmental risk and advise their patients
  • Connecting health care professionals, scientists and community groups with policymakers to promote evidence-based policies that reduce and eliminate harmful exposures

CEC Programs

medical students
Environmental Scholars Program
reach the decisionmakers cohort 2024
Reach the Decisionmakers
Community-led Pilots

Who We Are

 

Rashmi Joglekar, PhD

CEC Director

 

James Nolan, MPH

CEC Associate Director

 

Robert Harrison, MD, MPH

Internship Director

 

Marya Zlatnik, MD

Director of Clinical Engagement

 

Our Stakeholder Advisory Board ensures that EaRTH and its CEC achieves its goals and effectively addresses the needs and interests of those the Center serves. The SAB stays informed of the Center's latest scientific advancements and actively facilitates multi-directional information exchange, ensuring that EaRTH's efforts are both responsive and impactful.

Meet our Stakeholder Advisory Board

CEC Partners

Clinical outreach for patient education and decision-making

Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (WS PEHSU)

Stephanie Holm, MD, PhD, MPH

Mark Miller, MD, MP

Health professional engagement

San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility (SF Bay PSR)

Robert Gould, MD

Marj Plumb, DrPH, MNA

Patrice Sutton, MPH

Community partners for environmental health education, outreach, and decision-making

The Community Engagement Core's multi-directional information exchange between our healthcare education and professional community and all EaRTH Center components:

CEC Partners