# Community Outreach and Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · 2021 · $147,418

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY - COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT CORE
Because of their proximity to agriculture and agribusinesses, rural people have significant exposures to
bioaerosols, organic dust, and allergens; agricultural pesticides and farm chemicals; and antibiotic-resistant
pathogens from the livestock industry. The Community Outreach and Engagement Core at the University of
Iowa EHSRC seeks to assist rural populations by disseminating and translating relevant environmental
health research conducted within the Center.
 In 2015, the EHSRC COEC conducted a needs assessment in which many of the environmental health
issues identified by Iowa communities were related to rural life exposures, including Water Quality,
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), Land Use, Food Safety, Radon, Metals, and Healthy
Homes. The Center and COEC have conducted research and community engagement on many of these
issues and will continue to do so going forward.
 Additionally, the COEC will continue to build upon its established successes. Our Environmental Health
Workshops for Midwest Legislators have served as a model for other centers to replicate and modify, and we
will continue to work with our partners at NCSL and the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest to
carry these into the future. The Science Café series we established in 2013 has been well received in rural
Iowa communities and the COEC will work to bring high-quality, relevant science to these communities in the
years to come. We will remain active in radon research and translation through our affiliations with the Iowa
Radon Coalition and engaged in disseminating the latest information on climate change and human health to
legislators, the lay public and the scientific community. Our team will continue to provide training and technical
assistance to Center members and scientists undertaking community research. Finally, we have increased our
involvement in disaster preparedness by partnering with the Iowa Flood Information System on the inclusion of
public health information, working with public health professionals on a training video for flood responders.
 Through these efforts toward delivering science and technology-based information to meet the needs of our
scientists, communities and stakeholders, the EHSRC COEC remains an integral and integrated part of the
Center.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10146862
- **Project number:** 5P30ES005605-31
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
- **Principal Investigator:** Edith A Parker
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $147,418
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-04-01 → 2022-06-16

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10146862

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10146862, Community Outreach and Engagement Core (5P30ES005605-31). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10146862. Licensed CC0.

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