# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $266,407

## Abstract

ABSTRACT (COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE)
The Community Engagement Core (CEC) will serve as the focal point to build capacity of CHARMED members
to engage in productive and meaningful community partnerships centered upon principles of community-
engaged research (CEnR). The CEC will serve as a connector of communities with CHARMED investigators to
develop responsive, science-based, educational and translational solutions to community-identified needs
and build the capacity of the CHARMED to conduct and participate in multi-directional and responsive
community-engagement. The overall objective of the CEC is to serve as the conduit for community engagement
that creates synergy between all CHARMED Cores and communities to fulfill a shared mission of addressing
community-identified environmental health concerns. The CEC builds upon existing partnerships focused on
Maryland regional historical and ongoing challenges with air, water, and soil quality improvement, solid and
hazardous waste management, aging infrastructure, transportation, energy infrastructure, goods movement, and
land use and development. The CEC will pursue three specific aims: 1) Build capacity of CHARMED faculty and
community youth to understand, conduct, and participate in CER around environmental health concerns. 2)
Enhance existing and develop new multi-directional community partnerships to promote and elevate CHARMED
as a focal point for CEnR of community-identified environmental health concerns around the Maryland region.
3) Respond to community concerns using two approaches: A) generate responsive, science-based,
environmental health education and translational resources for recognized environmental health issues; and B)
foster and develop CEnR projects to address emerging environmental health issues. First, it will help build
capacity for CHARMED’s members to train the next generation of leaders to conduct responsive, science-based,
environmental health CEnR. Second, it will enhance existing and develop new multi-directional partnerships that
can respond to community-identified environmental health concerns. Finally, the CEC will use educational and
translational resources and new CEnR projects to address these community-identified environmental health
concerns.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10394479
- **Project number:** 1P30ES032756-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Christopher D Heaney
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $266,407
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2022-06-24 → 2026-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10394479

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10394479, Community Engagement Core (1P30ES032756-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10394479. Licensed CC0.

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