Pilot Project Program

摘要(试点项目计划) 试点项目计划(PPP)对社区卫生中心的能力至关重要： 马里兰州区域疾病环境决定因素(特许)，以实现其促进的中心目标 环境健康领域的创新跨学科研究，将知识转化为行动以解决 马里兰州地区的社区环境挑战，以及培育和支持下一代 环境科学家。资助试点赠款是促进和支持 社区-科学家伙伴关系，播种新兴研究领域，推动新型科学研究的发展 方法，并支持环境健康研究中的转化性研究，这些研究可能演变为 独立资助的研究。公私合作伙伴关系的具体目标是：1)促进和支持 应对马里兰州地区社区的环境健康挑战；2)促进传播 向相关利益攸关方介绍由特许基金支持的试点项目的结果；以及3)评估成效 和购买力平价的影响。为了实现这些目标，公私合作伙伴关系将为四种类型的试点项目提供资金 研究建议：1)社区参与研究(CENR)奖，将颁发给任何JHU或 马里兰州地区的大学教职员工与社区合作伙伴共同致力于设计和实施 在上述合作伙伴的积极参与下进行；2)职业发展奖(CD)，将 促进和支持社区早期和中期调查员事业的成功- 从事环境健康研究；3)新方向奖(ND)，将支持高影响力， 以中心科学主题为重点的创新项目，特别是那些导致追求 多名调查员补助金；将授予来自非环境卫生领域的知名调查员 打算扩大研究范围以包括环境健康研究的学科；4)快速反应 试点项目奖(RRP)，这将使调查人员能够解决紧急的环境问题(例如 飓风、新冠肺炎、漏油)和/或生成用于提交赠款或重新提交的初步数据 提高他们成功的机会。如果应用程序面向重要的社区，则它们将获得高优先级 关注，可能导致外部资金，利用一个或多个设施核心，和/或带来创新 接近田野。由于所有试点项目获奖者将有望成为中心成员和 参与中心的所有活动，我们预计这个资助机制将极大地扩大社区- 通过培育环境创新研究的生态系统，参与中心的研究活动 卫生以中心的主要科学主题为重点。

ABSTRACT (PILOT PROJECT PROGRAM) The Pilot Project Program (PPP) is critical to the ability of the Center for Community Health: Addressing Regional Maryland Environmental Determinants of Disease (CHARMED) to achieve its central goals of fostering innovative interdisciplinary research in environmental health, translating knowledge into action to address community environmental challenges in the Maryland region, and nurturing and supporting the next generation of environmental scientists. Funding pilot grants represents a major strategy for promoting and supporting community-scientist partnerships, seeding emerging research areas, driving development of novel scientific approaches, and supporting translational research in environmental health research that could evolve into independently funded research. The Specific Aims of the PPP are to: 1) To foster and support research that addresses environmental health challenges of communities in the Maryland region; 2) facilitate the dissemination of findings from CHARMED-supported Pilot Projects to relevant stakeholders; and 3) evaluate the effectiveness and impact of the PPP. To achieve these goals, the PPP will provide pilot project funding for four types of research proposals: 1) Community-Engaged Research (CEnR) Awards, which will be awarded to any JHU or university faculty in the Maryland region working together with community partners on projects designed and conducted with the active participation of said partners; 2) Career Development Awards (CD), which will promote and support the success of the careers of Early Stage and Mid-career Investigators in community- engaged environmental health research; 3) New Direction Awards (ND), which will support high impact, innovative projects that focus on the scientific themes of the Center, especially those which lead to the pursuit of multi-investigator grants; which will be awarded to established investigators from non-environmental health disciplines who intend to expand their research to include environmental health research; 4) Rapid Response Pilot Project Awards (RRP), which will enable investigators to address emergent environmental concerns (e.g. hurricanes, COVID-19, oil spills) and or to generate preliminary data for grant submissions or resubmissions to enhance their chances of success. Applications will receive high priority if they address important community concerns, are likely to lead to extramural funding, utilize one or more facility cores, and or bring innovative approaches to the field. As all pilot project grant awardees will be expected to become Center members and participate in all Center activities, we anticipate that this funding mechanism will greatly expand the community- engaged research activities of the Center by fostering an ecosystem of innovative research in environmental health focused on the main scientific themes of the Center.