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Session 1 Topics:
- Overview of using data to address community concerns
- Using data to support associations between source/exposure/outcome
- How to determine a data question
- Types of data needed for different questions
- Types of available data
Session 2 Topics:
- Data collection methods and tools
- Data validity and quality standards
- Bias
Session 2.5 Topics:
- Publicly available data use
- Census data
- Participants’ requests
Session 3 Topics:
- EH related agencies (who they are, what they do)
- Laws related to specific concerns
- Rights as community scientists
- Opportunities to be involved in legal process (especially with data)
- Data requests
Session 4 Topics:
- Basic data visualization and summaries (descriptive stats); Data communications
- Basic Excel or Sheets tutorial (making tables/graphs)
- Tools to assist with interpreting data (including AI)
Session 5 Topics:
- How to summarize or report data back to relevant party
- Create a plan for further investigation/action
Learning Objectives
- Describe the connections between exposure, outcome, and structural inequity and locate evidence to support or reject specific associations
- Formulate, investigate, and communicate a data question related to an environmental health concern using online resources and basic statistical methods
- Produce a detailed and achievable data plan to address their environmental health concern
- Describe the different types of data required to answer different kinds of research questions
- Locate at least three online tools or resources for information collection
- Identify and locate a publicly available dataset
- Recognize the importance of data validity for different goals and discuss requirements for community-specific goals (standards of evidence)
- Identify challenges around data collection (ex: low cost sensor validity to EPA), analysis, and validity as they relate to community-specific EH concerns
- Learning Objectives to be defined after first session and based upon participant needs
- Identify the laws/regulations and agencies that are relevant to their specific EH concern
- Locate forms or resources for requesting data or contacting government officials
- Recognize the importance of data validity for different goals and discuss requirements for community-specific goals (standards of evidence)
- Identify opportunities to use data to support advocacy efforts
- Identify challenges around data collection, analysis, and validity as they relate to community-specific EH concerns
- Perform basic data analysis using online tools or statistical methods
- Produce a plan, presentation or report of compiled data for targeted audience
- Identify challenges around data collection, analysis, and validity as they relate to community-specific EH concerns
- Perform basic data analysis using online tools or statistical methods
- Produce a presentation or report of compiled data for targeted audience
