# Development Core

> **NIH NIH P2C** · EMORY UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $205,747

## Abstract

SUMMARY – DEVELOPMENT CORE
The overall goal of the Development Core DC of the center for Children's Health Assessment, Research
Translation, and Combating Environmental Racism (CHARTER) is to provide a comprehensive, integrated
program of career development to enhance the path towards independence for early-stage investigators working
in the thematic areas of children's environmental health, health disparities, and translation of research affecting
Black individuals and their communities. The lack of progress in addressing environmental racism and health
disparities can be attributed, in part, to inadequate capacity building in research and translation at the intersection
of the fields of environmental and maternal-child health and community advocacy, including limited funding and
career development opportunities for junior scientists, particularly those who have been structurally marginalized
resulting in their underrepresentation. The Development Core will serve a pivotal role in developing early-stage
investigators and promoting research, research capacity building, and translation in the intersection of the fields
of children's environmental health, health disparities, and research translation to generate innovative approaches
to mitigate environmental health disparities and improve access to healthy environments for Black women,
children, and communities. The Development Core will be led by three experienced environmental health
researchers with extensive expertise in children's environmental health research, and who will engage with
multidisciplinary faculty across Emory University and the University of Georgia to administer a comprehensive
program to train and advance the career trajectory of early stage investigators, with a focus on underrepresented
minorities. The Development Core will accomplish its mission by (1) organizing and administering a multi-level
Pilot Project Program to provide opportunities to support innovative, time-sensitive projects and preliminary data
generation opportunities with priority given to early stage investigators, particularly Underrepresented Minorities
(URMs), to enhance their research in translational environmental health disparities and children's environmental
health research; (2) cultivate a CHARTER Investigator career development program; and (3) provide
opportunities for mentoring, research guidance and career development support for early stage investigators
and trainees through seminars, workshops, and networking opportunities. By offering innovative program and
services, the Development Core of CHARTER, will impact the career trajectories of new and early career
researchers, particularly those that have been historically structurally marginalized, fortifying their success in
obtaining independent research funding, developing skills to promote career success, and build networks of
collaborators and mentors that can assure long-term success in children's environmental health research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10744258
- **Project number:** 5P2CES033430-03
- **Recipient organization:** EMORY UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Carmen Joseph Marsit
- **Activity code:** P2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $205,747
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-12-13 → 2026-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10744258

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10744258, Development Core (5P2CES033430-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10744258. Licensed CC0.

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