# Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · 2020 · $334,627

## Abstract

The Integrated Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC) facilitates multi-directional mechanistic, toxicological, 
and clinical translational as well as population-based studies and public health policy and education, with a 
focus on the environmental exposures affecting human health that are unique to the diverse populations of the 
Southwest. The mission of the IHSFC stems from the three SWEHSC research themes: environmental 
exposures in underserved Southwest populations, environmental lung disease, and adaptive responses to 
environmental stressors, which span a number of environmental exposures including organic solvents, metals 
and metalloids, airborne particulate matter, and UV light exposure. To foster integrated environmental health 
research, the IHSFC is organized around three operational components. The Human Populations and 
Exposure Resource provides strategic advice and resource support to SWEHSC investigators sampling 
southwest human populations and their living environment, and in communicating research findings with key 
stakeholders. The Data Science Resource provides statistics, bioinformatics, database development and 
integration, and high-performance computing support and resources to investigators within a model of project 
partnership. The Emerging Contaminants Analytical Resource provides analytical capabilities and technical 
expertise to detect and quantify organic and inorganic contaminants of concern in complex environmental and 
biological matrices. By combining these three resource areas, the IHSFC provides integrated services and 
expertise in environmental exposure measurement and modeling, the analytical measurement of 
environmental and biological samples and exposure biomarkers, and in the use of those measurements to 
model the relationship between exposure and health outcomes. IHSFC scientists work with investigators from 
all three SWEHSC research focus groups (RFGs) and Pilot Projects, serve as mentors for Career 
Development beneficiaries, and work with the Cellular Imaging and Genomics Facility Cores to ensure 
consistent, professional statistics and bioinformatics study design, data management, and connectivity. Finally, 
the IHSFC collaborates extensively with the Community Engagement Core (CEC) to leverage established 
relationships with community stakeholders, identify exposures of concern to communities, assess 
environmental health literacy, and identify effective strategies for communicating research results and 
environmental risk to the people of Arizona and the Southwest.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9942445
- **Project number:** 5P30ES006694-23
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
- **Principal Investigator:** DEAN BILLHEIMER
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $334,627
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9942445

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9942445, Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (5P30ES006694-23). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9942445. Licensed CC0.

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