# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · 2021 · $235,420

## Abstract

Project Summary 
Community-engaged research (CEnR) is becoming increasingly viewed as a keystone to translational 
medicine and plays an integral role in accomplishing the NIEHS Strategic Goals. The Community Engagement 
Core (CEC) is a key integrating element in the University of Cincinnati (UC) Center for Environmental Genetics 
(CEG). The core has the major responsibility of assisting CEG investigators in fostering mutually beneficial, 
bidirectional partnerships with community members, health care professionals, and policy makers involved in 
environmental health science (EHS). The ultimate goals of the CEC are to increase awareness and 
understanding of CEG EHS research, and serve as a liaison between the community and the Center. In order 
to achieve these goals and in support of the vision of the CEG to “minimize the impact of environmental 
exposures on health”; the CEC will innovatively address three specific aims. Specific Aim 1: Translate and 
disseminate Center research into environmental public health knowledge for our target audiences (community 
members, health care professionals, and policy makers) in order to increase awareness and understanding of 
environmental health. Specific Aim 2: Develop and facilitate bidirectional community-engaged research 
partnerships between Center investigators and members of our target audiences in order to address identified 
environmental health issues, needs, and concerns. Specific Aim 3: Advance the field of community 
engagement in environmental health through implementing citizen science practices, novel communication 
approaches, and data disclosure. With expertise in public health, outreach and education, and environmental 
health communication, the highly active and committed CEC community-academic leadership team in 
partnership with its Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB) is poised to significantly contribute to seven of the 11 
NIEHS Strategic Goals (#5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11). The innovative ability of the CEC to leverage and expand 
existing UC resources for EHS, integrate with other Cores within the CEG, and utilize the independent UC 
Evaluation Services Center, will allow for the proposed objectives of the CEC to have local, regional, and 
national impact.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10142472
- **Project number:** 5P30ES006096-29
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
- **Principal Investigator:** Susan Mengel Pinney
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $235,420
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-04-01 → 2023-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10142472

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10142472, Community Engagement Core (5P30ES006096-29). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10142472. Licensed CC0.

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