Administrative Core

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SUMMARY – ADMINISTRATIVE CORE The Administrative Core (AC) will provide oversight, coordination, and integration of all activities of the Drexel Center on Climate Change and Urban Health (CCUH). It will support the organizational structure and infrastructure needed to advance the central theme of the CCUH: the creation and dissemination/translation of evidence that will support urban policies to address the health and equity impacts of climate change in cities. The AC will leverage significant prior experience at the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative in leading and coordinating large multinational and transdisciplinary research collaborations with a focus on urban health and health equity in ways that are inclusive and informative for policy, practice and community action. The AC will establish a Center Executive Committee and convene an External Advisory Board composed of external experts and leaders who will provide input into the overall direction of the Center. The Administrative Core will ensure that the activities of the Research Project, the Research Capacity Building Core (RCBC), and the Community Engagement Core (CEC) are coordinated and synergistic and that our partners (University of California Berkeley, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, and Institute for Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) in Guatemala) are meaningfully engaged and supported. The AC will develop and implement a data infrastructure and management plan that facilitates collaboration and will support synthesis and communication of key findings to stakeholders in ways that are useful for action. The AC will also monitor and evaluate all Center activities including our plan to promote and support diversity and inclusion, and coordinate engagement and collaborations with the Climate Change and Health Research Coordinating Center and the broader Community of Practice. Finally, the Administrative Core will support the development of an agenda and priorities for the future, including plans to secure additional funding and expand the research, capacity building, and policy and community engagement work to a broader network of countries and cities across the Americas in ways that support solutions-oriented research. The specific aims of the core are: (1) To establish and sustain a participatory governance and administrative structure that provides programmatic and budgetary oversight, that ensures coordination and integration of all Center activities, and that regularly monitors, evaluates and reports on all activities; (2) To ensure that diversity and inclusion are prioritized and integrated within all Center activities; (3) To develop and implement a data infrastructure plan that facilitates access to and use of data on the impacts of climate change on health in urban areas for research as well as for dissemination and engagement purposes. (4) To synthesize and communicate Center findings and lead the development of a broader research and engagement agenda on climate change and health in urban areas that engages multiple stakeholders at Drexel University and beyond, establishes programmatic directions and identified new funding opportunities to ensure sustainability and expansion of Center activities into the future.