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Note: Prior to July 1, 2007, the School of Public Health was named the College of Health & Human Performance.

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    Engaging a Chemical Disaster Community: Lessons from Graniteville
    (MDPI, 2014-05-27) Abara, Winston; Wilson, Sacoby; Vena, John; Sanders, Louisiana; Bevington, Tina; Culley, Joan M.; Annang, Lucy; Dalemarre, Laura; Svendsen, Erik
    Community engagement remains a primary objective of public health practice. While this approach has been adopted with success in response to many community health issues, it is rarely adopted in chemical disaster response. Empirical research suggests that management of chemical disasters focuses on the emergency response with almost no community engagement for long-term recovery. Graniteville, an unincorporated and medically underserved community in South Carolina was the site of one of the largest chlorine exposures by a general US population. Following the immediate response, we sought community participation and partnered with community stakeholders and representatives in order to address community-identified health and environmental concerns. Subsequently, we engaged the community through regular town hall meetings, harnessing community capacity, forming coalitions with existing local assets like churches, schools, health centers, and businesses, and hosting community-wide events like health picnics and screenings. Information obtained from these events through discussions, interviews, and surveys facilitated focused public health service which eventually transitioned to community-driven public health research. Specific outcomes of the community engagement efforts and steps taken to ensure sustainability of these efforts and outcomes will be discussed.
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    A Critical Review of an Authentic and Transformative Environmental Justice and Health Community — University Partnership
    (MDPI, 2014-12-11) Wilson, Sacoby; Campbell, Dayna; Dalemarre, Laura; Fraser-Rahim, Herb; Williams, Edith
    Distressed neighborhoods in North Charleston (SC, USA) are impacted by the cumulative effects of multiple environmental hazards and expansion of the Port of Charleston. The Low Country Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC) built an environmental justice partnership to address local concerns. This case study examines the process of building and sustaining a successful transformative and authentic community-university partnership. We apply the framework established by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), focusing on four of the nine principles of Good Practice of Community Campus Partnerships.
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    A Critical Review of an Authentic and Transformative Environmental Justice and Health Community — University Partnership
    (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014-12-11) Wilson, Sacoby; Campbell, Dayna; Dalemarre, Laura; Fraser-Rahim, Herb; Williams, Edith
    Distressed neighborhoods in North Charleston (SC, USA) are impacted by the cumulative effects of multiple environmental hazards and expansion of the Port of Charleston. The Low Country Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC) built an environmental justice partnership to address local concerns. This case study examines the process of building and sustaining a successful transformative and authentic community-university partnership. We apply the framework established by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), focusing on four of the nine principles of Good Practice of Community Campus Partnerships.
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    ISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION, AND ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY ANALYSIS OF ENTEROCOCCCUS SPP. AND SALMONELLA SPP. FROM CONVENTIONAL POULTRY FARMS TRANSITIONING TO ORGANIC FARMING PRACTICES
    (2009) Kinney, Erinna Lea; Sapkota, Amy R.; Public and Community Health; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This baseline study evaluated prevalence and antibiotic resistance of food-borne bacteria as conventional poultry facilities transition to organic practices. Poultry litter, feed, soil, water samples and poultry questionnaire responses were collected from 10 conventional and 10 organic-transitioning poultry houses from March to June 2008. Enterococcus spp. (n=260) and Salmonella spp. (n=100) isolates were identified to species level and antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed using the Sensititre® system. Statistical analyses were performed using STATA 10. Prevalence of Enterococcus spp. on organic-transitioning and conventional poultry farms was 100%; and prevalence of Salmonella spp. was 100% and 40%, respectively. Enterococcus isolates from conventional poultry houses displayed significantly higher percentages of resistance for 9 antibiotic agents compared to organic-transitioning isolates. Conversely, Salmonella spp. isolated from both conventional and organic-transitioning poultry houses exhibited similar antibiotic resistance patterns. Baseline findings suggest importance of poultry production practice in prevalence and antibiotic resistance patterns of food-borne bacteria.