# Presentation: 488593

## Core Descriptions

**Core Descriptions**

- Beth Anderson
*Program Analyst*
*Superfund Basic Research Program*

**US Department of Health and Human Services**
**National Institutes of Health**
**National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences **

**SBRP Applicant Information Meeting **
**October 29, 2003**
- Research Triangle Park
- North Carolina

## Cores

**Research Translation **
**Research Support **
**Community Outreach**
**Training**

**Cores**

## Administrative Core

**Administrative Core**

***Intent:***
**To provide a vehicle for:****	**
**Planning and coordination **
**Integrating cross-discipline research**
**Overseeing fiscal and resource management**
**Maintaining ongoing communications with NIEHS**

## External Advisory Committee

-  Academics
-  Community
-  Industry
-  Government
*Role of Committee is to Evaluate:*
- Merit of research
- Relevance and importance
- Integration
- Appropriateness of community outreach
- Effectiveness of translating research
- Effectiveness of training

**External Advisory Committee**

## Administrative Core

**Administrative Core**

- Admin Core

- NIEHS

- Research Translation Core

***Communication Coordinates:***

## Research Translation Core

**Demonstrate support for ensuring that important research advances are communicated to appropriate stakeholders.**

**Research Translation Core**

## Research Translation Core

- Partnerships with Gov’t agencies
- Technology transfer
- Communication to broad audiences
- e.g. sponsorship of workshops;
- development of communication tools

**Research Translation Core**

## Research Support Core

***Intent:***
- To provide centralized services or resources to the research projects

**Research Support Core**

***Requirements*****:**
- Must have at least one research support core
- Must support two or more research projects

- C1

- P1

- P2

## Community Outreach Core

- To build a closer link between the research and the communities’ concerns regarding hazardous substances and hazardous waste sites.

**Community Outreach Core**

**We have placed an increased emphasis on focusing activities that engage in a partnership with the community.**

## Community Outreach Core

- Commitment from the community (e.g. local government, tribal councils, established groups/organizations, service groups)
- Involvement of the Community
- Clear plan and approach including   milestones
- Complement the strengths of the research and theme of the program

**Community Outreach Core**

## Core Component Changes

-  NIEHS Communications
-  Gov’t liaison
-  Tech transfer
- Outreach Core
- Communication Tools
-  Community Outreach
-  K-12

- Administrative Core
-  NIEHS Communications

_**Past:**_

_**ES 04-001:**_

- Research Translation Core:
-  Gov’t liaison
-  Tech Transfer
-  Other communication tools

- Community Outreach Core

- NIEHS

**Core Component Changes**

## Training Core

- To provide opportunities for graduate students and post doctoral students to be trained in environmental health sciences from an interdisciplinary approach.

**Training Core**

**We have placed a strong focus:**
** ****Cross-training across scientific disciplines**
** ****Enhancing students ability to communicate effectively**
** ****Promoting involvement in the Community Outreach Core**