Administrative Core (includes review of Director^s Fund)

行政核心（包括董事基金的审查）

• 批准号: 8279704
• 负责人: Peter S Thorne
• 金额: $ 25.67万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8279704
• 关键词: Advisory Committees; Applications Grants; Budgets; Consultations; Core Facility; Decision Making; Development; Devices; Disasters; Effectiveness; Environmental Health; Equipment; Explosion; Extramural Activities; Failure; Floods; Fostering; Funding; Goals; Grant; Hazardous Substances; Institutes; Iowa; Leadership; Monitor; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Play; Process; Productivity; Public Health; Research; Research Training; Resources; Risk; Role; Universities; Vision; career development; college; health science research; member; new technology; operation; outreach; premature; programs; response

6 ADMINISTRATIVE CORE 6.1 GOAL AND AIMS The goal of the Administrative Core is to support the EHSRC in achieving its vision and aims by the coordination, integration and assessment of Center cores, facilities, membership, activities and budgets. The specific aims of the Administrative Core are to: Aim 1) Provide direction and leadership to promote the vision, goals and aims of the Center; Aim 2) Provide interdisciplinary coordination and foster interactions between Center members, research cores, and facilities; Aim 3) Administer the Pilot Grant Program, Career Development Program and Director's Fund; Aim 4) Promote environmental health outreach through administrative support of COEC; Aim 5) Assess and document the productivity and effectiveness of Center activities; Aim 6) Foster interactions with NIEHS, Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Centers elsewhere and with other EHS organizations; and Aim 7) Leverage institutional resources for the Center. The Administrative Core plays a central role under the guidance of the Internal and External Advisory Committees. The Administrative Core interacts with all Research Cores, Facility Cores, the COEC and the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training (DERT) to foster interactions and advance the goals and aims of the Center as well as those of NIEHS. The Administrative Core provides assessment of the productivity and effectiveness of EHSRC components and determines the appropriateness of Center activities. The Core is responsible for the submission and management of competing, non-competing and supplemental grant proposals. The Core also responds to inquiries from NIEHS, the University or the College of Public Health regarding activities of the EHSRC and connects the Research Cores with COEC Activities. 6.7 DIRECTOR'S FUND A Director's Fund has been added by NIEHS as an option to the Core Centers program since our last competitive renewal. In this renewal application we have elected to institute a Director's Fund budgeted at $50,000/year. This fund will be under the purview of the IAC with final decisions made by the Center Director in consultation with the Deputy Director. Effectiveness of the Director's Fund allocations will be monitored by the Center Deputy Director and reviewed annually by the Internal and the External Advisory Committees. Anticipated uses of the Director's Fund include: 1) timely response to emerging environmental health issues or disasters; 2) purchase or replacement of a device essential to center facility operations: and 3) development of new technology identified as important to advancing center goals. We expected to allocate the Director's Funds for special projects that respond to an environmental disaster or a unique environmental health issue requiring a rapid response. Examples include devastating floods such as the Iowa Floods of 2008, large scale hazardous substance spills or explosions that pose a risk to public health. The Director's Fund may also be used to purchase or replace a key piece of Facility Core equipment, the need for which could not have been anticipated in the regular budgeting process (e.g. premature failure of a major piece of equipment, or the identification of a new technology that would be of great benefit to the Center).

6 行政核心 6.1 目标和目标 行政核心的目标是通过中心核心、设施、成员、活动和预算的协调、整合和评估来支持 EHSRC 实现其愿景和目标。行政核心的具体目标是： 目标 1) 提供指导和领导，以促进中心的愿景、目标和宗旨； 目标 2) 提供跨学科协调并促进中心成员、研究核心和设施之间的互动； 目标 3) 管理试点资助计划、职业发展计划和主任基金； 目标 4) 通过 COEC 的行政支持促进环境健康宣传； 目标 5) 评估并记录中心活动的生产力和有效性； 目标 6) 促进与 NIEHS、其他地方环境健康科学 (EHS) 中心以及其他 EHS 组织的互动；和 目标 7) 利用中心的机构资源。 行政核心在内部和外部咨询委员会的指导下发挥核心作用。行政核心与所有研究核心、设施核心、COEC 和 NIEHS 校外研究与培训部 (DERT) 互动，以促进互动并推进中心以及 NIEHS 的目标和目标。行政核心对 EHSRC 组成部分的生产力和有效性进行评估，并确定中心活动的适当性。核心负责提交和管理竞争性、非竞争性和补充性拨款提案。该核心还回应 NIEHS、大学或公共卫生学院有关 EHSRC 活动的询问，并将研究核心与 COEC 活动联系起来。 6.7 董事基金 自上次竞争更新以来，NIEHS 已添加董事基金作为核心中心计划的一个选项。在此续签申请中，我们选择设立董事基金，预算为每年 50,000 美元。该基金将属于 IAC 的职权范围，最终决定由中心主任与副主任协商后做出。中心副主任将监督主任资金分配的有效性，并由内部和外部咨询委员会每年进行审查。董事基金的预期用途包括： 1）及时应对新出现的环境健康问题或灾害； 2) 购买或更换中心设施运营必需的设备：以及 3) 开发被认为对推进中心目标很重要的新技术。 我们预计将主任基金分配给应对环境灾难或需要快速反应的独特环境健康问题的特殊项目。例如，2008 年爱荷华州洪水等毁灭性洪水、对公众健康构成威胁的大规模危险物质泄漏或爆炸。主任基金还可用于购买或更换关键设施核心设备，这些设备的需求在正常预算编制过程中无法预计（例如，主要设备过早失效，或确定对中心大有裨益的新技术）。