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

 描述（由申请人提供）：行政核心的职能是提供行政支持，组织，协调和有效管理本中心。由于该中心涉及多个项目、多个核心和多个调查人员，因此，建立一个集中的机制来促进其顺利运作是绝对必要的。行政核心将由Nadia N Hansel博士指导，Gregory B博士共同指导。Diette.他们将共同负责评估整个中心及其各个项目的进度和整体管理。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。这一责任需要对“中心概念”的坚定承诺。“因此，中心最重要的职能是促进项目和核心的互动，协调和整合内的使命和中心的主题。 管理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相关的CURE COPD研究项目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 并为整个计划的科学进展制定必要的新安排。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和Diette博士组成了一个管理团队，结合了社区研究，应用暴露评估研究，流行病学和临床实践的专业知识。他们完全有资格领导科学活动和核心活动的整合。行政核心的总体目标是确保完成拟议的研究，培训和推广活动，并促进中心内外的互动和信息交流，包括与NIH和EPA。此外，行政核心和导师团队将负责促进和跟踪该中心对促进环境健康差异领域初级调查员发展的影响。

 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.