# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO · 2024 · $145,047

## Abstract

ABSTRACT – ADMINISTRATIVE CORE
The overarching goal of the Administrative Core (AC) is to provide organizational structure to the Center of
Excellence (COE) by developing and implementing an efficient governance and management plan. The
Administrative Core uses the NIMHD Research Framework's levels of influence to configure the Center's
structure and adopts a multi-principal investigator approach that is highly participative in its decision-making
process. This Core will build on the extensive administrative, scientific, and program evaluation expertise of its
staff to accomplish the Center's goals. The Administrative Core's Advisory Board will provide feedback to this
Core to ensure an integrated, interdisciplinary, community-driven, culturally sensitive, and regionally relevant to
the health disparities research mission of the COE. The Administrative Core is responsible for the coordination,
integration, and management of the Center's activities and the provision of administrative support for the
Investigator Development and Community-Engagement and Dissemination Cores, and for facilitating
resources needed to achieve their goals. Specific activities pertaining to this core are to develop and
implement an efficient organizational and governance structure, develop governance guidelines, conduct fiscal
management, provide oversight to the implementation cores' plans, comply with institutional training and
federal regulations and policies, and maintain a strong internal and external communication with stakeholders.
The Administrative Core is responsible for creating common data collection repositories across the Cores,
monitoring and documenting investigator training activities, supporting community engagement and
dissemination activities, monitoring progress and outcomes, and monitoring career development outcomes for
all trained investigators and community-engagement core activities. In addition, the Administrative Core will
advocate for the integration of Community Engagement leadership (CEL) designated courses to augment a
culture of community-engaged research among investigators affiliated with the center. Investigators teaching
CEL courses will foment a culture of community-engagement research among their students, thus contributing
to the development of the next generation of community-engaged researchers. The Administrative Core will
support the successful achievement of the Center's activities by providing strategic direction, timely oversight,
management, administration, integration, and coordination of the overall Center's team-based community-
engaged research activities. In addition, this core will provide support to the implementation of a rigorous and
continuous evaluation plan, develop and submit annual progress reports to stakeholders, and prepare annual
progress reports for NIMHD. The Administrative Core will be instrumental in the achievement of the Center's
goals and in establishing the COE as a recognized and prestigious Cente...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10900395
- **Project number:** 1P50MD019494-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO
- **Principal Investigator:** Maria O. Duarte-Gardea
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $145,047
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-07-13 → 2029-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10900395

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10900395, Administrative Core (1P50MD019494-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10900395. Licensed CC0.

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