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Environmental Element - August 2020: NIEHS e-newsletter managing editor gains composing award

.This handsome honor joins the others on the NIEHS Workplace of Communications &amp Public Intermediary's shelve. (Photograph courtesy of Steve McCaw).Environmental Factor Editor-in-Chief Kelly Lenox was actually honored with a 2020 Blue Pencil and Gold Screen Award coming from the National Affiliation of Federal Government Communicators (NAGC). Lenox won second area in the Article writer's Portfolio classification for a set of bulletin write-ups that highlight ecological wellness. This NAGC honor is the 3rd in 4 years for the Environmental Variable (find sidebar).Contents published between July 1, 2018 and also Dec. 31, 2019 were actually qualified for the 2020 awards. Classifications extended the work of open communications workplaces, exemplifying products including those listed below:.Film.News release.Mobile marketing.Social media outreach.Each category named top place, second spot, and also award of excellence. Best in program is actually decided on yearly from all starting point winners." Our team put a lot of initiative in to revealing the science without dumbing it down, and the judges ased if that," Lenox pointed out. "I hope this honor will help more readers uncover the current on environmental health and wellness study and also relevant updates.".She took note that the newsletter arrives at experts, public health specialists, policymakers, members of proposal groups, as well as the general public. Concerning 25% of the e-newsletter's audience is actually global, a testament to the magazine's range.Stories mirror NIEHS Game plan.Lenox joined NIEHS as Environmental Aspect editor-in-chief in 2013. (Picture courtesy of Steve McCaw).Lenox said she selected five posts that mirrored the NIEHS 2018-2023 Strategic Plan's Theme 2: Marketing Interpretation-- Data to Knowledge to Activity. 2 stories described dealing with decisionmakers. One more post recounted exactly how specialists worked together to advance science. The last 2 accounts explained ecological health research.Together, the compilation supports Concept Two, which "shows the translational waterfall from research study leads in to an aggregate body system of know-how that inevitably informs and supports public health activity.".' The Environmental Element brings a ton of visibility to NIEHS as well as its own essential job,' said Christine Flowers, director of the NIEHS Workplace of Communications and People Intermediary. 'Kelly's outstanding writing skill-sets as well as her monitoring of the e-newsletter are substantial properties for our office.'.The winning short articles.A crew of a minimum of two judges decided on by the NAGC honors committee compose the access on standards including writing, editing and enhancing, material, layout, and also much more.Lenox featured 5 stories in her collection:.Vaping has quantifiable results on the body, vague if safer than smoking.Contagious health condition and after that environment - two-way street.Connecting Parkinson's disease, chemicals, and also genes.PFAS Senate hearing, Birnbaum's pro scientific testament.NIEHS preparations for disaster, wellness research study along with derailment instance.