# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · 2021 · $234,233

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
Our CEC objective is to facilitate and enhance collaborations that are responsive to community needs, with the
overarching vision and aim of improving community health and public health practice for urban and rural
communities disproportionately impacted by environmental exposures. Our stakeholders include urban and
rural communities, policy-makers, environmental resource managers, and public health professionals. Key
partnerships with community-based organizations, tribes, and educators ground and guide our areas of focus.
We are a robust team with diverse skill sets in research translation and community engagement. In 2019, with
new staff and incoming co-director, we engaged in critical reflection about the effectiveness of our strategies
to-date and the strength of our historic partnerships. We continue to focus on air quality and inhalation-based
exposures, as low-income communities in south Seattle experience disproportionate diesel exposures and
eastern Washington communities face persistent wildfire smoke. Our environmental health programs with
teachers carry our related work on inhalation exposures focus further with lessons on the health impacts of
vaping.
We are poised to deepen and extend our work through impactful projects, research translation and impact
assessment, including through our enhanced focus on disaster research response (DR2). Over the next five
years, we will grow our DR2 areas of work, fostering our community of practice and providing local, statewide,
and national leadership. In addition to ongoing excellence in science communication and research translation,
our CEC will also formalize a Community Responsive Research Lab. With the development of this resource,
we will enhance our ability to connect communities with researchers who can support community-driven
projects. Throughout, we leverage our expertise and EDGE strengths to enhance environmental health literacy
and promote environmental public health.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10165400
- **Project number:** 2P30ES007033-26
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
- **Principal Investigator:** Kelly A. Edwards
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $234,233
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1997-06-01 → 2026-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10165400

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10165400, Community Engagement Core (2P30ES007033-26). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10165400. Licensed CC0.

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