“The North Carolina Radon Program has been expanding its work with minority and underserved communities through strategic partnerships across the state, including with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Historically Marginalized Populations Workgroup, Latin 19, Wake Forest University Health Disparities Program, and the Duke Cancer Institute Health Disparities program. Through these partnerships, the state is developing new educational and research efforts to reach renters and people of color, as well as offering scholarships for minority contractors to become certified radon professionals.”
Overview of EPA’s State and Tribal Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted During 2022, published in February 2023, notes this as an accomplishment. (https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-02/2022%20Annual%20SIRG%20Activities%20Report.pdf)
Partnerships are described on the website https://www.ncdhhs.gov/divisions/health-service-regulation/north-carolina-radon-program/partnerships Persons from the listed organizations have assisted the NC Radon Program, and many cases continue to assist, in accomplishing the statewide efforts to educate North Carolinians about radon: sources of radon, testing for radon, and how to lower elevated radon levels.
Some examples are:
Center for Black Health and Equity
The Center for Black Health and Equity was awarded funding from the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors Inc. to develop educational program materials on radon aimed at historically marginalized populations.
Duke Cancer Institute and Duke University
Duke Cancer Institute and Duke University have been involved in promoting education about radon-induced lung cancer through a number of methods. They have also been active in conducting research on a variety of aspects of radon-induced lung cancer.
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