# Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2023 · $249,932

## Abstract

ABSTRACT - INTEGRATED HEALTH SCIENCES FACILITY CORE 
 The Integrated Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC) of the UCSF Environmental Research and Translation 
for Health (EaRTH) Center will augment existing UCSF resources to help investigators add and/or improve on 
environmental health components into their existing studies, to provide access to the latest and most robust 
scientific understanding of chemical exposures and health effects, and to leverage the Program on Reproductive 
Health and the Environment and Environmental Health Initiative's demonstrated effective science 
communication to broadcast broadly the science of EaRTH Center members to improve the public's health, 
particularly among our most vulnerable populations. 
 The goal of our IHSFC is to support investigators by providing consultation on key aspects of environmental 
health research to understand exposures and health effects, map biological pathways and improve 
environmental literacy among health professionals. The IHSFC will provide researchers assistance with study 
design, database and other queries to identify chemicals and other environmental exposures for evaluation, 
development of patient questionnaires for environmental exposure, and computational and bioinformatics 
approaches for evaluating environmental health data. The IHSFC will also provide consultation regarding adding 
non-chemical stressors, such as psychosocial stress, to studies of environmental health. Specifically, the IHSFC 
will provide consultation on (1) study design, data analysis, and data integration with environmental chemical 
exposure and non-chemical stressors data to advance epidemiologic and translational environmental health 
science research; (2) selecting and measuring chemical exposure in epidemiologic and translational health 
research; and (3) strategies and tools for effective communication of science to audiences including clinicians, 
community-based organizations, local/state/national decision-makers, and the media and support for reporting 
back of environmental exposures and study results to research participants using a well-tested and easy-to-use 
digital interface. We will also provide access to training on methods for evaluating and synthesizing 
environmental health in human and animal science via the Navigation Guide systematic review and meta- 
analysis methodology to support environmental literacy. 
 The IHSFC will encourage an interdisciplinary approach to investigate, analyze and disseminate findings by 
providing services for researchers from diverse fields including basic sciences, epidemiology, bioinformatics, 
public health, environmental health and clinical sciences. The IHSFC will inspire a diverse and well-trained group 
of scientists to move environmental health science forward and train the next generation of environmental health 
science leaders from a wide range of scientific disciplines and diverse backgrounds and specialties at UCSF.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10598489
- **Project number:** 5P30ES030284-04
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
- **Principal Investigator:** Peggy Reynolds
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $249,932
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-05-22 → 2025-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10598489

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10598489, Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (5P30ES030284-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10598489. Licensed CC0.

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