Comparing Urban and Rural Effects of Poverty on COPD (CURE COPD)

 描述(申请人提供)：行政核心的职能是为本中心提供行政支持、组织、协调和有效管理。由于该中心涉及多个项目、核心和调查人员，因此，一些集中的机制以促进其顺利运行是必不可少的。《行政核心》将由Nadia N Hansel博士执导，Gregory B.Diette博士联合执导。他们将共同负责评估整个中心及其个别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所包含的研究和支助活动相结合，共同努力形成一个大于单个组成部分总和的科学体系。这一责任需要对“中心理念”的坚定承诺。因此，中心最重要的职能是在中心的使命和主题范围内促进项目和核心的互动、协调和整合。行政核心将负责协调与约翰霍普金斯大学医学院和彭博公共卫生学院、东田纳西州立大学学院和内布拉斯加大学医学中心有关的CURE COPD研究计划关键人员之间的沟通。行政核心将协调项目间、部门间和机构间的协作安排 并制定被认为是整个计划科学进步所必需的新安排。行政核心还将为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补助金行政办公室联络。行政核心提供的行政支助将负责组织各种每周会议以及外部咨询委员会和巴尔的摩和阿巴拉契亚社区咨询委员会的会议。Hansel博士和Diette博士组成了一个管理团队，结合了基于社区的研究、应用暴露评估研究、流行病学和临床实践方面的专业知识。他们完全有资格领导科学和核心活动的整合。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，并促进中心内外的互动和信息交流，包括与国家卫生研究院和环境保护局的互动和信息交流。此外，行政核心和指导小组将负责促进和跟踪中心在促进环境健康差距领域初级调查员发展方面的影响。

 DESCRIPTION (AS PROVIDED BY APPLICANT): The function of the Administrative Core is to provide administrative support, organization, coordination and efficient management of this Center. Because this Center involves multiple projects, cores, and investigators, some centralized mechanism to facilitate its smooth operation is absolutely essential. The Administrative Core will be directed by Dr. Nadia N Hansel and co-directed by Dr. Gregory B. Diette. Together they will be responsible for evaluating the progress and overall administration of the entire Center 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. This responsibility requires a strong commitment to the "center concept." As a result, the most important function of the Center is to facilitate project and core interactio, coordination, and integration within the mission and theme of the Center. The Administrative Core will be responsible for coordination of communication between CURE COPD research program key personnel who are associated with the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, the College of Eastern Tennessee State University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The Administrative Core will coordinate the inter-project, inter-departmental and inter-institutional 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 as well as the meetings of the External Advisory Committee and the Baltimore and Appalachia Community Advisory Boards. Drs. Hansel and Diette form a management team combining expertise in community-based research, applied exposure assessment research, epidemiology, and clinical practice. They are well qualified to lead the integration of scientific and core activities. 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 Center, including with the NIH and EPA. In addition, the Administrative Core and mentorship team will be responsible for promoting and tracking the impact of the Center on fostering the development of junior investigators in the field of environmental health disparities.