# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P42** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · 2020 · $72,789

## Abstract

ABSTRACT: CORE C
The Community Engagement Core (CEC) facilitates the bidirectional exchange of knowledge between
community-based and university-based scientists and researchers on environmental contamination and
exposure pathways. As the hub for the partnership between the Yurok Tribe and UC Davis, the CEC works to
identify community concerns and needs, facilitate response to those needs by working with the other project
and core leaders, and ensure that the Tribe is able to engage with and participate in all projects of interest
associated with the SRP. The expected outcomes of the CEC's activities are (1) tribal staff members trained in
specific technologies for identifying specific contaminants and monitoring exposure pathways for those
contaminants; (2) development of educational brochures and pamphlets for tribal members on specific
contaminants; (3) technology transfer of specific tools to tribal staff and members to identify and monitor
contaminants; (4) a cadre of university researchers trained to better work with tribes; (5) the collaborative
acquisition of information on previously undocumented contaminants in the region; (6) provision of specific
information on contaminants to support the Tribe's development of a pesticide ordinance and other specific
policies, as needed by the Tribe. The process of the CEC begins with relationship building, leads to
collaborative science, and concludes with benefits to both partners and the environment.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9917780
- **Project number:** 5P42ES004699-32
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
- **Principal Investigator:** Elisabeth Rose Middleton
- **Activity code:** P42 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $72,789
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9917780

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9917780, Community Engagement Core (5P42ES004699-32). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-14 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9917780. Licensed CC0.

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