Global Center on Climate Change and Water Energy Food Health Systems - Administrative Core

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Abstract – Admin Core the Global Center on Climate Change and Water Energy Food Health Systems (GC3WEFH) is a program with multiple components and a multidisciplinary team of scientists supporting the general goal of addressing climate change health impacts among the most vulnerable global communities. In order to have an effective impact, the center requires an organized core dedicated to coordination of its components to support each other, have fiscal oversight, and ensure timely decisions during the period of the program. The Administrative Core (AC) will be the core responsible for this role by connecting all the components of the GC3WEFH that will allow Data Services Core, Research Engagement Core, and Research Project teams to function as one comprehensive whole. Center research activities will take place in the Azraq Basin, one of the most climate vulnerable regions within Jordan, and will involve well-defined groups of communities that the Center will reach through strategic community-level partnerships. In addition, the AC will foster each Core’s efforts at capacity building to sustain successful interventions and expand the implementation of solutions and the resources generated by the center. The AC will have a leadership organization structure to allow everyone the ability to follow how decisions are made, and who is responsible for which part of the Center. This is extended to the community organizations and partners the center will engage for the different aims of each core. The research quality, integrity and consistency of research methods, and level of productivity is also part of the role of the AC to maintain the high standards of the evidence and the interventions that can be built based on such evidence. The AC will also be responsible for administration of the pilot funding to community partners, which is an important component for the community- academic partnerships for the center in this period and future scale up. There will be an External Advisory Board of expert scientists and Stakeholders Advisory Board of Community organizations that will be engaged in developing the agenda for the center and addressing any challenges that the center and its components might face. Community engagement is central to the function of the center, and there is a very strong tie to the Community Engagement Core by having the Overall Director of the Center be also the lead of the Community Engagement Core. The Executive Committee is formed of the lead members of all participating universities as well as the local community leader. The Director and Deputy Direction are both culturally and linguistically connected to the region and its people and have had a long history of research funded by NIH and NSF within such settings, which will strengthen the Center’s networking capacity and impact during this funding cycle and future ones. This effort will be carefully evaluated by a dedicated team of experts and providing direct feedback to leadership on regular basis to refine the aims and activities based on such evaluation. The development of the AC is to serve the center for this funding period and potential future ones after this exploratory phase.