# Core A: Administrative core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2020 · $293,139

## Abstract

CORE A: Abstract/Summary
Core A provides leadership, management, organizational structure, fiscal oversight, and
scientific direction to the Penn Mental Health AIDS Research Center (PMHARC), enabling it to
fulfill its core mission to transform how people with both mental illness and HIV/AIDS (mental
illness/AIDS) are treated and managed, an explicit focus not currently pursued by any other
center in the country. The Center and Core A is led by a Director and two Co-Directors with
exceptional and complementary strengths and experience in administration, research, and
training and in the study of comorbid mental illness/AIDS. PMHARC is located in an optimal
intellectual and resource environment, which encompasses robust and well-regarded mental
illness and AIDS research communities on the University of Pennsylvania and Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia contiguous campuses. The Center, through Core A, will optimize
psychiatric, behavioral, and medical outcomes for those suffering from comorbid mental
illness/AIDS and elucidate the biological, psychological, and behavioral mechanisms underlying
these combined illnesses and treatments. Core A has created an interactive environment that
fosters communication, collaboration, and synergy among Center components and participants,
as well as with the relevant schools, departments, centers, and institutes at Penn/CHOP
including the CFAR, the CTSA/CTRC, the Delaney Collaboratory, and with other NIMH AIDS
Research Centers. This proactive Core will be engaged and responsible for: 1) coordinating
interdisciplinary and collaborative mental health and AIDS research activities; 2) encouraging,
supporting, and mentoring new, established, and transitional investigators to focus on comorbid
mental illness/AIDS, and related comorbidities; 3) developing vibrant and responsive Strategic
Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Processes and comprehensive Policies and Procedures;
4) managing fiscal matters; 5) conducting educational and community outreach programs; 6)
fostering national linkages among other NIMH AIDS Research Centers; and 7) supporting an
active Community Advisory Board (CAB). Core A includes the Center Director, 2 Co-Directors,
Executive Committee (EC), Internal Advisory Board (IAB), External Advisory Committee (EAC),
Cross-Talk Committee, and CAB. This structure of Core A is explicitly intended to allow for
continuous monitoring and evaluation of PMHARC functioning in order to optimize efficiencies
and responsiveness.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9864095
- **Project number:** 5P30MH097488-08
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** DWIGHT L. EVANS
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $293,139
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9864095

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9864095, Core A: Administrative core (5P30MH097488-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9864095. Licensed CC0.

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