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Partnerships for Environmental Public Health
PEPH Newsletter Volume 12 , Issue 3 : March 2021
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High School Students Become Citizen Scientists to Reduce Radon Exposure
When it comes to building community capacity for reducing environmental risks , a new approach of engaging high school students as citizen scientists shows promising results . After residents in both Ohio and Kentucky expressed concern about radon exposure and its link to lung cancer , researchers with the community engagement cores ( CEC ) at the University of Kentucky ( UK ) and the University of Cincinnati ( UC ) teamed up with two high schools and took action on home radon testing . The project was both feasible and effective , with high rates of returned test kits and valid results .
( https :// ukcares . med . uky . edu / community-engagement-core ) ( https :// med . uc . edu / depart / eh / centers / ceg / cec )