# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2020 · $169,042

## Abstract

ABSTRACT – COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE
 The Environmental Research and Translation for Health (EaRTH) Center Community Engagement Core
(CEC) will capitalize on growing recognition that environmental health is within the purview of healthcare and the
transformational changes in medical education taking place at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
and beyond, to mainstream environmental health into the education and resources provided to our target
audience of graduate-level (nursing and doctoral level seeking, residents, and fellows) and practicing healthcare
professionals. The goal of the EaRTH Center CEC is to bridge health professionals and researchers so that
timely, environmental health research serves and protects public health. This “upstream” approach will provide
health professionals the knowledge and resources they need to understand and address their patients'
environmental health needs in the clinic while also creating a feedback loop permitting health professionals to
inform researchers about their environmental health questions, research needs, and clinical educational gaps.
To accomplish this, we will integrate environmental health science and its clinical application into the foundation
of learning that graduate-level and practicing healthcare professionals receive throughout their careers. If
students are to become effective healthcare professionals who protect and preserve patient and public health,
environmental health must be embedded into clinical education. Further, environmental health education and
resources must be provided to practicing healthcare professionals so they can better identify and prevent
upstream sources of exposures that lead to disease and communicate effectively with their patients. Our Specific
Aims are to: 1) Advance environmental health education within and beyond UCSF's graduate-level healthcare
professional programs and in health professional organizations; 2) Support in-depth training of future leaders in
environmental medicine by facilitating transdisciplinary learning among students, EaRTH Center members, and
the healthcare professional community; and 3) Advance environmental health literacy, communication, and
engagement of practicing health professionals by piloting and evaluating existing environmental health education
materials and clinical tools so that best practices may be identified; gaps may be addressed; and effective
materials and tools may ultimately be implemented at UCSF and throughout the nation. Our Center's location at
UCSF— ranked in the top five medical schools for science, training, and care —and our extensive track record
in this arena puts us in a unique and strong position to accomplish our goal. Through the CEC, we will create
healthcare professionals skilled in addressing and preventing environmental contributors to patient disease and
community health disparities and advance our effort to embed environmental health within healthcare.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9918115
- **Project number:** 1P30ES030284-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
- **Principal Investigator:** Annemarie Charlesworth
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $169,042
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-05-22 → 2025-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9918115

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9918115, Community Engagement Core (1P30ES030284-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9918115. Licensed CC0.

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