PROJECT SUMMARY - COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE The Center for Health, Energy, and Environmental Research seeks to catalyze rigorous, innovative, community-driven, policy-relevant, interdisciplinary research on health impacts of specific energy, transportation, land use, and infrastructure choices. In support of this objective, the goal of the Community Engagement Core (CEC) is to ensure that Milwaukee communities impacted by these policies exert a meaningful, long-term influence on the development and direction of the Center and benefit from its research, policy engagement and capacity building activities. The CEC draws upon existing strengths and partnerships, a set of core values and effective and innovative community engagement strategies to accomplish this goal. Specific Aims are: (1) Establish and build strong relationships with an active Community Advisory Board (CAB) to ensure that Center priorities, activities and investments align with and are responsive to community environmental public health priorities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (2) Build the Center’s capacity in community engaged data science to engage new audiences, leverage community-generated knowledge and data, and utilize innovative technologies and communication strategies to maximize the potential impact for community-driven environmental health policy solutions, (3) Establish multidirectional communication among Center researchers and communities impacted by decisions on energy, transportation, land use and infrastructure to ensure that Center research is strongly aligned with community priorities and research findings are effectively communicated to different audiences, and (4) Evaluate the Center’s community engagement activities to ensure effective collaboration between community and academic partners, that necessary course corrections and new directions are implemented expediently, and that community engagement processes and outcomes meet established metrics for authentic, reciprocal community-academic partnerships. The vision of the CEC is a Center where community and academic partners share influence and benefit to achieve common goals for healthier communities. If the proposed aims are achieved, we anticipate realizing this vision and maximizing the positive impact of this new Center for Milwaukee communities.