Mechanisms of Asthma-Dietary Interventions against Environmental Triggers

描述（申请人提供）：行政核心的职能是提供行政支持，组织，协调和有效管理本计划。由于该计划涉及多个项目、核心、实验室和研究人员，因此，一些集中的机制来促进其顺利运作是绝对必要的。管理核心将由Gregory B博士共同指导。Diette帕特里克N.布里斯Elizabeth Matsui博士将以儿科健康专家的身份支持该计划。Diette博士还担任项目1的项目负责人，Breysse博士领导环境评估核心，Matsui博士领导项目2。他们将共同负责评估整个计划及其各个项目的进度和总体管理。行政核心的主要责任是确保本申请中包含的综合研究和支持活动能够汇集其集体努力，以产生一个大于单个组成部分之和的科学体系。核心的最重要功能是促进项目和核心在哮喘-饮食计划的使命和主题内的互动、协调和整合。ASTHMA-DIET的主要人员与约翰霍普金斯大学医学院和彭博公共卫生学院的医学、儿科、环境健康科学、流行病学和生物统计学系有关。 该核心将协调项目间和部门间的合作安排，并制定被认为对整个计划的科学进展有必要的新安排。行政核心还将向项目和核心提供所有支出的定期审查，并就赠款预算与大学会计和赠款行政办公室联络。行政核心提供的行政支助将负责组织各种每周会议和研讨会以及内部和外部咨询委员会和社区咨询委员会的会议。行政核心的总体目标是确保完成拟议的研究、培训和外联活动，并促进方案内外的互动和信息交流。

Description (provided by applicant): The function of the Administrative Core is to provide administrative support, organization, coordination and efficient management of this Program. Because this Program involves multiple projects, cores, laboratories and investigators, some centralized mechanism to facilitate its smooth operation is absolutely essential. The Administrative Core will be co-directed by Drs. Gregory B. Diette Patrick N. Breysse. Dr. Elizabeth Matsui will support the Program in the role of Pediatric Health Specialist. Dr. Diette also serves as Project Leader of Project 1, while Dr. Breysse leads the Environmental Assessment Core and Dr. Matsui leads Project 2. Together they will be responsible for evaluating the progress and overall administration of the entire Program and its individual projects. The major responsibility of the Administrative Core is to ensure that the combined research and support activities contained in this application marshal their collective efforts to produce a body of science that is greater than the sum of the individual components. The most important function of the Core is to facilitate project and core interaction, coordination, and integration within the mission and theme of the ASTHMA-DIET program. The ASTHMA-DIET key personnel are associated with the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics. The Core will coordinate the inter-project and inter-departmental collaborative arrangements and develop new arrangements as deemed necessary for the scientific progress of the Program as a whole. The Administrative Core will also provide the Projects and Cores with a periodic review of all expenditures and liaise with University Accounting and Grants administrative offices regarding grant budgets. The administrative support provided by the Administrative Core will be responsible for organizing various weekly meetings and seminars as well as the meetings of the Internal and External Advisory Committees and the Community Advisory Board. The overall goals of the Administrative Core are to ensure completion of the proposed research, training and outreach activities, and facilitate interaction and information exchange within and outside the Program.