# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · 2020 · $157,917

## Abstract

ABSTRACT: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE (CEC)
The Vision for the Community Engagement Core (CEC) is to serve as the information and communications
axis for the Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health’s (GC-CPEH) stakeholders and target
audiences, including our leadership, Center Members, community members and organizations, consumers of
environmental public health information, and those engaged in policymaking related to environmental health.
Our Mission is to facilitate translation of Center science, increase environmental health literacy, and build
relationships that will lead to research responsive to our communities’ needs. Our ultimate Goal is to improve
community awareness and understanding of environmental health issues, while assisting researchers to
understand those concerns of importance to the community and thus inform their scientific studies.
The Specific Aims of the Community Engagement Core are:
Specific Aim 1: Translate and disseminate Center science to increase environmental public health
 awareness and understanding, and enhance the capacity of individuals and organizations to make
 informed environmental health and health policy decisions.
Specific Aim 2: Pioneer new multi-directional communication strategies to engage community partners to
 inform Center directions and programs, identify environmental concerns, and establish avenues for
 disseminating relevant environmental health information to stakeholders. This involves collaborations
 between the CEC and community partners to develop and implement responsive programs to address
 both emergent and longstanding needs, including Disaster Research Response (DR2) activities and
 newly proposed Military Exposures and Health activities.
Specific Aim 3: Advance the field of community engagement and environmental health communication by
 enhancing community-based participatory research (CBPR) use by Center investigators and rigorously
 evaluating engagement activities, processes, and outcomes and disseminating best practices at regional
 and national levels, including the NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9928953
- **Project number:** 5P30ES030285-02
- **Recipient organization:** BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Sharon A Croisant
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $157,917
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9928953

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9928953, Community Engagement Core (5P30ES030285-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9928953. Licensed CC0.

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