# Community Outreach and Ethics Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · 2020 · $165,663

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The mission of the Community Outreach and Ethics Core (COEC) is to support the Center in achieving its
overarching mission of Building Capacity and Collaborations, inspiring Creativity, and facilitating
Communication in environmental health sciences (EHS) research. To do this, the COEC plays a central role
in connecting Center investigators, community partners, and other stakeholders in productive EHS-focused
dialogue and activities. Our COEC has developed a strong presence in the region and has a reputation as a
trusted partner of stakeholders who include educators, tribal nations, public health professionals, government
agencies, non-profit organizations, and academia. One of COEC's areas of strength is our strong commitment
and expertise to address the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) that relate to Center research.
Our aims for the next funding cycle build on our strengths and expertise, support the mission of the Center,
promote innovative research, engage stakeholders, and foster the development of the next generation of EHS
innovation and networked researchers focused on exposures, diseases, genomics, and the environment.
Some proposals in this application build on our ongoing programs that have been in place through several
grant cycles and have evolved in collaboration with stakeholders as the COEC has established long-term and
meaningful community partnerships. These include The Academy for Teaching About Health and
Environmental Associations (ATHENA); Native Tradition, Environment And Community Health (TEACH);
Public Health Café; our partnerships with the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition and Collaborative for Health
& Environment and dissemination of our work on social media through blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
New initiatives include cultivating potential new partnerships with participants in the UW Tribal Leadership
Summit and the National Conference of State Legislators. In our Native TEACH program, we plan to introduce
a Scientific Workshop, career training for Native students, jointly funded collaborations between Center and
Native researchers, and to re-establish the inter-COEC Tribal Collaborative Working Group.
In addition to our outreach efforts, we will reach inward to our members through monthly Breakfast Club
gatherings where research is shared and collaboration encouraged, and offer communications training for
members and trainees, including Lightning Talk events and a graduate class in outreach and engagement.
COEC is an integrating element in the Center, translating and disseminating Center research to stakeholders
and the community, and connecting CRTs and Center members with each other and with our community
partners. The COEC will build on its previous efforts and successes as well as expand in new directions as we
enter the new grant cycle and the next phase of EHS research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9904627
- **Project number:** 5P30ES007033-25
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
- **Principal Investigator:** Kelly A. Edwards
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $165,663
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9904627

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9904627, Community Outreach and Ethics Core (5P30ES007033-25). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9904627. Licensed CC0.

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