Pilot

项目摘要 该中心的试点项目计划的目标是支持EHD研究的新的和新兴的主题 通过鼓励跨学科的研究人员思考他们的研究领域， 可以将专门知识结合起来，在这一领域产生新的见解和进展。我们的目标是支持 通过创新方法或新的合作结构， 通过研究和/或示范独立资助的工作。我们认识到 跨学科和多学科的研究在不同的社区，经验 环境暴露和健康方面的差异。我们将特别鼓励提交项目 将加强我们的实地和分析工作（包括中心目标活动）的建议 马萨诸塞州的切尔西和多切斯特社区）以新颖的方式利用中心数据集，测试 在新社区内开发的方法，或开发和应用新方法， 将告知中心内正在研究的EHD问题。我们的试点项目申请将 一个开放的呼吁，但我们将明确鼓励多学科的应用程序是协同与 中心主题和活动，我们将每年强调主题领域和基础设施 可以被申请人利用。 试点项目计划有三个具体目标：（1）支持协作，跨学科 EHD研究在切尔西的目标社区内的新的和新兴的主题领域， （2）支持在广泛的环境中应用各种方法和途径来解决EHD问题。 通过一个全国性的研究人员网络，在美国服务不足的社区范围;（3） 提供种子资金，沿着中心的资源和中心调查人员的指导， 将使初级研究人员有机会最大限度地提高合作研究的机会， 独立资助EHD研究中的新的和新兴的主题领域。这种基础设施将 提供高价值的资源，研究人员希望采取初步步骤，从新的假设， 新的和可资助的建议。

PROJECT SUMMARY The goal of the Center’s Pilot Project Program is to support EHD research in new and emerging topic areas, by encouraging researchers across multiple disciplines to think about how their areas of expertise could be combined to produce novel insights and advances in this field. We aim to support projects that, through innovative approaches or new collaborative structures, can evolve into independently funded efforts through research and/or demonstration. We recognize the value of conducting interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research across various communities that experience disparities in environmental exposures and health. We will specifically encourage submission of project proposals that would enhance our field and analytical efforts (including activities in the Center target communities of Chelsea and Dorchester, Massachusetts), utilize Center datasets in novel ways, test methods developed within the Center within new communities, or develop and apply new methods that would inform EHD issues under study within the Center. Our pilot project request for applications will be an open call, but we will explicitly encourage multidisciplinary applications that are synergistic with Center themes and activities, and we will emphasize each year the thematic areas and infrastructure that could be leveraged by applicants. The Pilot Project Program has three Specific Aims: (1) support collaborative, cross-disciplinary EHD research in new and emerging topic areas within the target communities of Chelsea and Dorchester; (2) support the application of methods and approaches to address EHDs across a wide range of underserved communities in the United States, via a national network of researchers; and (3) provide seed funding that, along with the Center’s resources and mentorship from Center investigators, will allow junior investigators the chance to maximize opportunities for collaborative research and independent funding in new and emerging topic areas within EHD research. This infrastructure will provide high-value resources to investigators looking to take the initial steps from novel hypotheses to new and fundable proposals.