Our Goals

The primary goals of CEEJH are to:

1)  Be a national and global leader in addressing environmental injustice and related health inequities due to environmental racism, structured inequality, and neoliberal policies through community engagement, innovative science including liberation and INpowerment science, community organizing, and advocacy 

2) Serve as a link between frontline and fenceline communities, community-based organizations, environmental advocacy groups, health professionals, researchers, educators, students, policymakers, and government agencies in identifying and addressing environmental justice and health issues in the District of Columbia-Maryland-Virginia region, the Mid-Atlantic region, and beyond

3) Place specific focus on environmental justice and health issues associated with contamination of the Chesapeake Bay, Anacostia watershed, Patuxent River, and the Eastern Shore

4) Use the community-based participatory research (CBPR) framework, citizen science, collaborative problem-solving model (CPSM) principles, and partnerships with diverse community-based organizations and underserved and overburdened populations suffering from economic, social, and health inequities due to racial capitalism including environmental racism and to INpower these populations through education, outreach, capacity-building, and technological solutions

5) Development or participation in partnerships with federal, state, and local policymakers and agencies to reduce environmental contamination in this region, understand the role that environmental health policies and planning and development have on driving environmental injustice and environmental health disparities, and work with these policymaker to use environmental justice principles to improve human health, enhance quality of life, and provide economic benefits to low-wealth and underserved communities in the DMV region, Mid-Atlantic region, and other parts of the United States