# Integrated Health Sciences Facility Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · 2021 · $270,344

## Abstract

ABSTRACT-INTEGRATIVE HEALTH SCIENCES FACILITY CORE: 
The Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC) of the Center for Human Health and the Environment 
(CHHE) is the central interface between basic scientists, data scientists, epidemiologists, clinical researchers, 
and public health practitioners. Its mission is to catalyze multidirectional translation of research between 
diverse model systems, population-based studies, and community partners to advance understanding about 
the effects of environmental exposures on human health and facilitate use of this information by affected 
communities to improve public health. The intentional disciplinary diversity of the IHSFC leaders has 
developed the Core into a highly effective resource for CHHE’s internationally renowned scientists who 
leverage diverse models for environmental health science (EHS) research, bioinformaticists who integrate data 
streams from across the health sciences, and epidemiologists and community engagement specialists who are 
substantively involved in local communities and translating CHHE research to improve public health. The 
IHSFC has been highly successful in its goal to establish key translational partnerships and resources and 
facilitate new and impactful interdisciplinary research connections and community engagement initiatives. 
Reflection on these successes revealed that a major factor in these connections was access to data science 
resources for interpreting, linking, and communicating results from basic science experiments through human 
studies and, ultimately, community engagement. Therefore, in the next funding cycle the previously separate 
data science efforts have been expanded and integrated into a new IHSFC Environmental Data Science Group 
(EDSG) that provides Center members clear access to significant data science capabilities. With expertise 
drawn from the Bioinformatics Research Center and the NC State Libraries, the EDSG component of IHSFC 
provides best-practices in data management, analysis, and sharing into all Center activities. Additionally, in the 
next funding cycle the IHSFC will revise its key personnel to accommodate the addition of the EDSG, will 
establish and extend key programmatic partnerships, and is creating new and enhancing existing resources at 
NC State and partner institutions. These activities will promote new opportunities for multidirectional translation 
between basic science, clinical research, and community organizations.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10162594
- **Project number:** 5P30ES025128-07
- **Recipient organization:** NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH
- **Principal Investigator:** David M Reif
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $270,344
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2015-04-20 → 2025-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10162594

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10162594, Integrated Health Sciences Facility Core (5P30ES025128-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10162594. Licensed CC0.

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