# Research Translation Core

> **NIH NIH P42** · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $174,058

## Abstract

For almost 15 years in total, the DUSRC Research Translation Core (RTC) has worked to accelerate the
application of Center’s research in order to prevent or reduce early life, developmental exposures through
strategic networks, partnerships, and other activities. The RTC will continue our work with Investigators from
each Project to identify key stakeholders with the capacity to influence early life exposures or their
outcomes. At least three times per year, the RTC will organize practical trainings in research translation and
science communication for all Center members. These communication trainings may include RTC-led
workshops in monthly Center meetings and sessions led by outside experts. The RTC will collaborate with the
Training Core, the CEC, and the Administrative Core to implement a structured program of trainee involvement
with research translation and community engagement activities each year of their SRP funding, named
the Trainee Communication and Engagement Program (TCEP). The RTC will also work in coordination with
the CEC to create and mentor Trainee Response Teams (TRT) to respond to short-term requests by
community-based organizations, industry, or policy makers for information related to one of the Center’s areas
of expertise. Duke’s new student electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) system, PebblePad™, will be used by each
trainee to store, document, publish, and distribute artifacts developed during their TCEP. To most effectively
engage SRP’s key stakeholders, ATSDR and EPA, around Center findings, the RTC will expand an existing
collaboration with the University of Kentucky and University of North Carolina Superfund Research Centers to
form a partnership at renewal with all SRCs in EPA Regions 3 and 4. The DUSRC has a long-standing
partnership with the Elizabeth River Project (ERP) in conjunction with Project 3; at renewal, we propose a
deeper research translation partnership with ERP and other area stakeholders. To communicate and
contextualize the implications of the DUSRC’s findings to health professionals who work with women, infants,
and children, as well as to broad audiences, the RTC will strategically employ online communication efforts to
disseminate timely environmental health resources to existing stakeholders and other identified partners. In
particular, RTC will engage both broad audiences and targeted professional leaders who are focused on
developmental exposures through their existing communities. The RTC will work with DUSRC PIs to develop
summaries, review articles, and editorial pieces about managing risks from environmental exposures for
OB/GYN periodicals or other appropriate resource centers. RTC staff and interns will manage the DUSRC
website (sites.nicholas.duke.edu/superfund) and will work with the Admin Core, PIs, and trainees to ensure
that each project and core webpage concisely shares our latest findings, research direction, and news/media
publicity.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9942430
- **Project number:** 5P42ES010356-18
- **Recipient organization:** DUKE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Charlotte Clark
- **Activity code:** P42 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $174,058
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9942430

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9942430, Research Translation Core (5P42ES010356-18). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9942430. Licensed CC0.

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