# Geographic & Contextual Measures Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · 2021 · $477,583

## Abstract

The Geographic and Contextual Measures Core (GCMC) will provide cutting-edge support to
investigators associated with the Center for the collection, management, and interpretation of
geographic and contextual factors. Assistance is also available in several other specialized areas
including environmental epidemiology, social and behavioral epidemiology, Geographical
Information Systems (GIS), and digital phenotyping. Core faculty and staff will advise investigators
on data management issues, availability of large-scale, high-resolution geographic and contextual
data sources, and the use of smartphone applications, and will facilitate training for Center
members, graduate students, and fellows working on Center-related projects. Providing these
services via a core facility will allow us to build and maintain specialized resources while drawing
on the broader resources available through the Departments of Environmental Health, Social and
Behavioral Sciences, and Biostatistics, and the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard.
The GCMC will also collaborate directly with the Center's Community Engagement Core (CEC).
Having a core facility also provides us with the necessary infrastructure to support educational
activities such as seminars and workshops of relevance to Center investigators. GCMC faculty
and researchers are experts in many fields of study and actively engage in research directly
related to the Center's new theme of re-envisioning an expanded definition of the environment.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10159272
- **Project number:** 5P30ES000002-58
- **Recipient organization:** HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** Francine Laden
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $477,583
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-04-01 → 2025-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10159272

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10159272, Geographic & Contextual Measures Core (5P30ES000002-58). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10159272. Licensed CC0.

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