# Community Outreach and Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · 2020 · $31,559

## Abstract

ABSTRACT (Overall Component)
The overarching goals of our Environmental Health Sciences Center (EHSC) are to prevent disease and
improve public health through innovative programs of excellence in environmental health sciences research, to
engage communities to address environmental health issues, and to enhance career development of talented
environmental health investigators. The EHSC provides the framework for the generation of novel research
findings and their conversion into effective resources for public health officials, medical professionals, and the
community. This tradition of success is based on our ability to recruit broad multi- and interdisciplinary
expertise, maintain a strong emphasis on basic science principles while incorporating clinical and translational
approaches, and effectively interact with the community. The specific mission of the EHSC at Rochester is to
improve public health through the generation of fundamental knowledge and elaboration of mechanisms by
which chemical exposures, alone or through interaction with other modifying factors, contribute to cumulative
health risk across the life span. As such, the theme that guides and integrates EHSC research and community
engagement programs is the understanding of interactions of environmental and occupational agents with
diverse individual contexts across the lifespan in modulating human disease and dysfunction. The goals of the
Center are achieved through a major focus on three research programs: Pulmonary & Cardiovascular Disease
Program, Neurodevelopmental & Neurodegenerative Disease Program, and Musculoskeletal Disease
Program. While the Center is structurally organized into these Disease Programs, shared thematic biological
processes, including immunological responses & inflammation, stem cell biology, early life sensitivities and
mechanisms of adult disease, epigenetics, and nutritional/dietary factors, weave these programs together and
synergize the research. These research efforts are supported by several structural units: Administrative Core,
Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core, Biostatistics Facility Core, Community Outreach & Engagement
Core, Pilot Project Program, and Career Development Program for Environmental Health Science
Investigators.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10085023
- **Project number:** 3P30ES001247-45S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Katrina S Korfmacher
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $31,559
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10085023

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10085023, Community Outreach and Engagement Core (3P30ES001247-45S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10085023. Licensed CC0.

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