CEER researchers have expertise in a variety of research approaches, including various community-engaged and epidemiological research methods. CEER also partners with other researchers, government agencies, and community-based organizations to co-develop public health risk communication materials.
Community Engagement
Community engagement is integral to ensuring that CEER understands community needs and that the community resilience strategies CEER implements and evaluates are culturally responsive and tailored to those needs.
CEER researchers have expertise in a variety of community engagement methodologies, including surveys, interviews and focus groups, and World Café, a method of facilitating multiple small group discussions that build on one another. Our approach to community engagement for a given project is determined by partner needs, capacity, and the project’s purpose and goals.
See below for examples of projects that utilize different community engagement strategies.
Example Projects
Surveys
- Spokane Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER)
- King County Indoor Air Quality Pilot
- Studying the use of portable air cleaners as an intervention to reduce wildfire smoke exposure through implementation science
Interview & Focus Groups
- The Value Public Health Brings to Climate Change Initiatives
- Extreme Heat Preparedness and Response Implementation
- Climate Change and Health in US-affiliated Pacific Islands
World Café
- Smoke Ready Spokane Symposium
- Spokane Extreme Heat Symposium
Epidemiology
Example Projects
- CASPER
- Time Series Analysis
- Case-cross over Analysis
Content Analysis
CEER conducts content analyses of local and state plans and policies to identify similarities, differences, and gaps among climate and disaster risk reduction strategies. CEER also conducts content analyses of risk communications and news media shared during disasters, such as extreme heat and flood events, to better understand their efficacy.
See below for examples of projects that utilize content analysis.
Example Projects
- Flood Project
- Smoke Plan Analysis
- Summer in the Cities
- Washington K-12 School Environmental Health & Safety Report
Risk Communication
Comics are an evidence-based public health risk communication tool. CEER has collaborated with various partners to co-develop public health comics to communicate about the health impacts of climate-sensitive hazards, like extreme heat and wildfire smoke, and to provide guidance to impacted populations about risk reduction strategies.
See below for two examples of comics CEER has co-developed with community and practice-based partners.
Example Projects
- JUst Solutions To Impacts of Climate Exposures for Health in Alaska
- Public Health – Seattle & King County Stay Safe in the Heat Comic
Additional Publications
- VanDeventer D, Marcaux J, Doubleday A, Errett NA, Busch Isaksen TM. Wildfire Smoke Risk Communication Efficacy: A Content Analysis to Summarize Washington State’s 2018 Statewide Smoke Event Public Health Messaging. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2020 Apr 17. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001151.