TAF+interview+questions

__PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW GUIDE__ SIX CITIES STUDY  1. Can you please describe your professional position? What geographic region is of professional concern to you, and what are your professional responsibilities? 2. Who are the key stakeholders and actors in environmental health governance in your region, and what can you are share about their positions and strategies? 3. What environmental health data has been collected in your region, by whom, and for what purpose? 4. What environmental health controversies have received attention in your region in the last decade or so? Are you aware of environmental health concerns that haven’t received much attention? 5. What government agencies and laws regulate environmental health stressors in your region? What is your perspective on their efficacy? 6. What have you observed or experienced that illustrates the way science has been developed and used in environmental health governance in your region? Have particular kinds of science or evidence been more influential than others? 7. What have you observed or experienced that illustrates the way different agencies and scales of government work together (or fail to work together) in your region? [We are particularly interested in interaction between agencies responsible for health, environment, transportation and education, and in interaction between municipal, state, national and international institutions.] 8. What have you observed or experienced that illustrates the (possibly distinctive) political culture or dynamics of your region? 9. How have concerns about environmental equity and health disparities been addressed in your region, and to what effect? 10. How has information about environmental health science and policy circulated in your region, and who has provided the information (print media, NGO newsletters or websites, health professionals, etc.) 11. Do you follow research or news coverage about environmental health science and governance in other regions? If so, what have you found particularly notable – particularly in providing new insight into your own region? 12. What do you think needs to be done -- through research, law, development of capacity in government agencies and health care, etc. – to support future improvements in environmental health in your region?