# Community Outreach and Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2020 · $98,692

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
For this renewal, the NYU Community Outreach and Engagement Core (COEC) will focus solely on the
environmental impacts and health issues of concern for our two already-established Environmental Justice
(EJ) community-partners including members of the Ramapough Lenape Tribal Nation (living in NJ and NY
areas nearby the NYU Center), and the Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) who serve NJ
communities living in the Ironbound section of Newark and around the Passaic River/Newark Bay vicinity.
Working closely with our CBO partners, we will provide local community members/stakeholders with
information and tools to reduce risk and protect human health via a series of collaboratively developed socially,
culturally and linguistically sensitive outreach and engagement initiatives. Through these community-academic
partnerships, NYU COEC will: (1) enhance the relevance of Center science findings to address identified
environmental priorities of the communities; (2) increase local community stakeholder's environmental health
knowledge and, in turn, capacity to reduce exposures; and (3) promote healthful behavior change-avoidance
actions that reduce exposures through targeted outreach and engagement efforts. The overarching goals of
COEC are to: Engage our community stakeholders to optimally shape research project design and develop
effective strategies to translate findings to community residents/leaders, elected officials, and local
organizations; Create a continuous bi-directional communication flow between the Center and community
stakeholders to collaboratively develop effective ways to disseminate knowledge from the Center's research
across impacted communities; Develop research partnerships among Center investigators and community
partners based upon mutual trust, engagement, and communication at the outset and sustain ongoing
community engagement/community ownership of Center research and strategies; and Build capacity of
community stakeholders and policy makers to use Center research to address environmental issues/related
health disorders related to the ongoing NYU Center Working Groups. Three Specific Aims are proposed to:
(1) Foster community-engaged environmental health science research and project partnerships between
community stakeholders and Center scientists to hold targeted collaboration trainings for Center scientists and
our CBOs from the Ironbound District/Newark Bay and the Ramapough Tribal Nation; (2) Strengthen capacity
of Center scientists and community partners to engage in Center COEC activities and increase community
stakeholders' awareness of Center science; and (3) Develop community-based education materials and
community-centered online dissemination platforms to support bi-directional communication between NYU
Center, community stakeholders, students, policymakers and general public. COEC direction will be guided by
a Community Steering Committee (newly-populated for the renewal), and program evaluation and su...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9902437
- **Project number:** 5P30ES000260-56
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Judith Terry Zelikoff
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $98,692
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9902437

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9902437, Community Outreach and Engagement Core (5P30ES000260-56). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9902437. Licensed CC0.

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