# Education Outreach Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · MAGEE-WOMEN'S RES INST AND FOUNDATION · 2021 · $66,631

## Abstract

Abstract: Education/Outreach Core
The primary goals of the Education and Outreach Core are to promote a better understanding of issues
concerning reproductive health and infertility in low income, underserved communities and by middle school
and high school students, as well as by adults. To develop a strong relationship with the community we will
work with an advocate for community health in African American and other underserved groups to organize
community meetings in health clinics in underserved areas of Pittsburgh. The P50 scientists will make
presentations and answer questions in these community meetings. This core will also make use of a unique
resource at the University of Pittsburgh, Pitt Science Outreach (www.pittscienceoutreach.com), that works with
faculty across the university to develop novel science lectures and laboratories to translate an understanding of
the research happening at the university into engaging learning experiences for the public. We will develop 3
new laboratory experiences to teach about male fertility and infertility treatment. These labs will be tested and
optimized in Pittsburgh schools. We will also develop teacher workshops to facilitate the transfer of these
laboratory activities to schools throughout Pittsburgh, Ithaca, New York, St. Louis. In each location we will train
post-docs, graduate students and undergraduate students working with the P50 scientists to facilitate these
labs when they are given in local classrooms in each community. We will make the new science activities
available to all NCHD NCTRI investigators, as well as publish these protocols in education journals to
maximize their availability. The aims of this Core are: (1) to hold community meetings in each of three health
clinics in underserved communities in Pittsburgh to provide information about the causes and treatments of
male infertility, (2) to develop three new hands-on science activities that teach about male reproductive biology
and the genetic causes of infertility including a testis histology lab, a mock male fertility work-up lab, and a
DNA isolation, sequencing and finger-printing lab, as well as a new lecture on the effects of environmental
exposures on the epigenome and potential consequences for fertility and offspring, (3) develop a Teacher's
Workshop curriculum to educate middle and high school teachers about male reproductive biology and the
genetic causes of infertility and to provide them with adequate background to run these activities in their
classrooms in Pittsburgh, Ithaca, New York and St. Louis, and (4) to deliver labs to reach an average of 1,000
students/year and an average of 150 adults/year in Pittsburgh in collaboration with Pitt Science Outreach, and
facilitate delivery of labs to students in Pittsburgh, Ithaca, New York and St. Louis through teacher training with
a goal of reaching an additional 400 students/year in underserved communities in all regions associated with
this P50.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10137294
- **Project number:** 5P50HD096723-03
- **Recipient organization:** MAGEE-WOMEN'S RES INST AND FOUNDATION
- **Principal Investigator:** JUDY L CAMERON
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $66,631
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-01 → 2024-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10137294

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10137294, Education Outreach Core (5P50HD096723-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10137294. Licensed CC0.

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