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Pam Tau Lee, Labor Occupational Health Program, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, 310 8th St., Oakland, CA 94607, 510-643-7594, ptlee@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Partnerships between community and public health are crucial to achieving environmental justice. After nearly a decade of community based partnerships with NIEHS, US/EPA, university academics and researchers, there is evidence that EJ partnerships based on community participation, community capacity building, and action have achieved results and is helping make our communities healthier. What lessons can be drawn? What key issues should be addressed when outlining mutually beneficial partnerships? What organizational commitments need to be made to assure accountability? This presentation will address these questions by drawing on experiences of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Southwest Network for Environmental Justice, and the Second National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit’s Principles of Working Together, working group.

Learning Objectives:

• 1. Describe a community based approach to establishing partnerships for public health.
• 2. List key issues for outlining and arriving at partnership agreements.
• 3. Discuss benefits and challenges of community/public health partnerships.

Keywords: Environmental Justice,

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

Recorded presentation