# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $250,041

## Abstract

Community Engagement Core (CEC) ABSTRACT 
The overarching theme of the Texas A&M Center for Environmental Health Research (TiCER) is “Enhancing 
Public Health by Identifying, Understanding and Reducing Adverse Environmental Health Risks.” The 
Community Engagement Core (CEC) will be the primary conduit for bi-directional communication between 
Center members and communities across Texas. The mission of the CEC is to facilitate communication of 
community environmental health concerns to researchers, while at the same time supporting translation and 
dissemination of environmental health research results to residents of environmental justice neighborhoods and 
the broader populations of stakeholders. This mission will be accomplished by addressing four key elements of 
bi-directional engagement. The problem identification element will focus on engaging communities to identify 
and prioritize environmental health concerns. The development of scalable tools, will focus on the use of 
citizen science, community design, and social media tools that can be used to scale-up successful research 
translation activities of the CEC to communities beyond our initial partners. The communication of findings 
and exploration of communication as an intervention will focus on the communication of scientific findings, 
as well as the potential for family-based communication to be used as an intervention to reduce exposure. The 
decision- and policy-making element will apply the research findings of Center members to the development 
of evidence-based policies in coordination with community stakeholders, enabling long-term improvements in 
public health. The leaders of the CEC have an established track record of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and 
community-engaged projects, including a Superfund Research Program Community Engagement Core, and are 
well positioned to transmit community priorities to Center members and facilitate the translation of Center findings 
to protect the publics’ health and achieve more informed decision-making across the continuum of stakeholders, 
from individuals to communities to policy makers. 
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10137247
- **Project number:** 5P30ES029067-03
- **Recipient organization:** TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** ROBIN S FUCHS-YOUNG
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $250,041
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-05-01 → 2024-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10137247

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10137247, Community Engagement Core (5P30ES029067-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10137247. Licensed CC0.

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