# Children's Health Equity Solutions Center (CHESC)

> **NIH NIH P20** · OSU CENTER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $710,505

## Abstract

Administrative core 
Project Summary 
The proposed Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) will establish the Children's Health Equity 
Solutions Center (CHESC). The Administrative Core (AC) is responsible for accomplish two of the CHESC's 
aims. Specifically the AC is responsible for cultivating a cadre of independent researchers focused on 
discovering the bases for, and solutions to, children's health inequities; and establishing the foundation and 
initial processes necessary to enable translational research focused on eliminating children's health inequities. 
The AC will satisfy these responsibilities to the CHESC through an integrated and innovative set of functions 
that will accomplish five specific aims. The AC will: 1) build an efficient administrative system to support the 
CHESC enterprise (administrative function); 2) enable frequent and high quality contact between promising 
emerging investigators and their mentors to ensure continuous progression toward independence (mentoring 
function); 3) prepare CHESC PEIs to be "competent collaborators" capable and committed to engaging in 
translational child health equity research in a biobehavioral framework (training and transition function); 4) 
locate, support and nurture individuals from diverse disciplines to engage in child health equity research 
(developmental function); and 5) ensure that all CHESC investigator-supported projects are advancing toward 
independence, and that all center supports and services are effectively delivered. The AC is led by an 
established team of senior scholars, including a proven NIH investigator with a history of mentoring emerging 
investigators, and other senior personnel will complementary skills needed to train and transition promising 
emerging investigators into independence. The CHESC's administrative core is significant; it will eliminate a 
critical barrier to building a cohort of independent child health inequity researchers in Tulsa by eliminating the 
vacuum created by the absence of strong research mentorship, and exposing local investigators to the best 
minds and methods in child health inequity research. The administrative core is innovative; it embraces a novel 
view of translational science as both process (bench-to-bedside-to community) as well a tool for making 
informed "go, no go" decisions. AC activities across its functions reflect methods and activities from diverse 
disciplines to equip CHESC PEIs in launching a translational science research program using biobehavioral 
models, and in building new ways of doing translational science.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9924552
- **Project number:** 5P20GM109097-05
- **Recipient organization:** OSU CENTER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Jennifer Hays-Grudo
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $710,505
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-09-05

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9924552

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9924552, Children's Health Equity Solutions Center (CHESC) (5P20GM109097-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-11 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9924552. Licensed CC0.

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