# Community Outreach and Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2020 · $198,482

## Abstract

ABSTRACT (Community Outreach and Engagement Core)
Consistent with the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) theme,
Community Outreach and Engagement Core (COEC) activities focus on dissemination of research on
environmental exposure health impacts during vulnerable stages of life. The overarching vision of the COEC is
to: foster enhanced understanding among community members, policy makers, and public health decision-
makers concerning the role of environmental exposures in disease; promote multidirectional dialogue between
community members, policy makers, public health decision makers, and M-LEEaD researchers to inform the
center's research activities; and promote scientific understanding of effective strategies to assure
multidirectional communication and effective engagement. Specifically, we seek to increase awareness and
understanding of environmental exposures and disease through translation and dissemination of
environmental health research (from both our center researchers and from other researchers), and to increase
understanding among M-LEEaD researchers of environmental health concerns among community members
and policy makers. COEC activities focus on two primary audiences: organizations and community leaders
with capacity to reach residents in Southeast Michigan, particularly Detroit; and policy and public health
decision makers in Detroit, Michigan, regional, and national levels. We will accomplish this vision by: 1)
enhancing, expanding, and sustaining partnerships with stakeholders; 2) increasing awareness and
understanding of environmental public health among community members, policy makers, and decision
makers at local, regional, state, and national levels to enhance capacity to improve environmental decision
making; 3) communicating issues, needs, and concerns of community members and of policy and public
health decision makers to M-LEEaD scientists to promote multidirectional dialogue to inform and guide M-
LEEaD research that address expressed needs of these audiences; and 4) advancing the field of community
engagement through evaluation of COEC process and outcomes, dissemination of results locally and
nationally, and promotion of engagement models for national implementation. The COEC encompasses
rigorous evaluation methodology to further the science of community engagement and research translation.
The proposed vision and activities maintain and strengthen multidirectional dialogue across investigators with
expertise in physical and social environments and health with representatives from community-based
organizations, policy makers and public health and environmental decision makers. This dialogue will inform
environmental health research and improve its translation to inform intervention and policy decisions with
implications for environmental health.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9904650
- **Project number:** 5P30ES017885-09
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** AMY J SCHULZ
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $198,482
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-06-15

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9904650

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9904650, Community Outreach and Engagement Core (5P30ES017885-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9904650. Licensed CC0.

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