Administrative Core ABSTRACT The Administrative Core will provide leadership and guidance to the Texas A&M Center for Environmental Health Research (TiCER) to ensure excellence of research integration, community engagement, research translation, and career development. The overall theme of the Center is “Enhancing Public Health by Identifying, Understanding, and Reducing Adverse Environmental Health Risks.” The Administrative Core will serve as the focal point for the Center and provide the support infrastructure to promote cross-discipline interactions among all members, facility cores, and external stakeholders. The Administrative Core will be centrally located on the Texas A&M University campus. The responsibilities of the Administrative Core, led by the Program Committee, consisting of the Center Director, Deputy Director, Center Administrator, Facility Core principal investigators and theme leaders, will be: (i) planning Center activities;; (ii) evaluating progress and considering solutions for challenges;; (iii) improving Center integration;; (iv) advising on personnel matters;; (v) assessing quality management/assurance;; (vi) organizing the annual retreat;; and (vii) evaluating community engagement, training, and research translation activities. will be to facilitate regular interactions among Center members, track products and outcomes, develop and plan future activities, and guide and sustain growth of environmental health research at Texas A&M. The Program Committee will use an Internal Advisory Board of senior Texas A&M administrators and an External Advisory Board of eminent environmental health researchers in advisory capacities to ensure that research, outreach, career development, and translation goals and objectives are being met. The Center will achieve its goals through four aims: 1) Provide effective center leadership;; 2) Maintain an active membership;; 3) Enhance coordination, integration, and translation of research;; and 4) Promote career development.