Administrative Core (includes review of Director^s Fund)

6行政核心 6.1目标和宗旨 行政核心的目标是通过协调、整合和评估中心核心、设施、成员、活动和预算，支持EHSRC实现其愿景和目标。行政核心的具体目标是： 目标1）提供指导和领导，以促进中心的愿景和目标; 目标2）提供跨学科的协调和促进中心成员，研究核心和设施之间的互动; 目标3）管理试点赠款方案、职业发展方案和主任基金; 目标4）通过COEC的行政支助促进环境卫生外联; 目标5）评估和记录中心活动的生产力和有效性; 目标6）促进与NIEHS、其他地方的环境健康科学（EHS）中心以及其他EHS组织的互动; 目标7）为中心利用机构资源。 行政核心在内部和外部咨询委员会的指导下发挥核心作用。行政核心与所有研究核心，设施核心，COEC和NIEHS校外研究和培训部（DERT）进行互动，以促进互动并推进中心以及NIEHS的目标和目的。管理核心评估EHSRC各组成部分的生产力和有效性，并确定中心活动的适当性。核心负责提交和管理竞争性、非竞争性和补充性赠款提案。该核心还回应NIEHS，大学或公共卫生学院关于EHSRC活动的询问，并将研究核心与COEC活动联系起来。 6.7董事基金 自我们上次竞争性更新以来，NIEHS已将董事基金作为核心中心计划的一个选项。在此更新应用程序中，我们选择建立一个董事基金，预算为50，000美元/年。该基金将在国际咨询委员会的职权范围内，由中心主任与副主任协商后作出最后决定。中心副主任将监督主任基金拨款的有效性，并每年由内部和外部咨询委员会审查。主任基金的预期用途包括： 1)及时应对新出现的环境卫生问题或灾害; 2)购买或更换中心设施运行所必需的设备;以及 3)开发新技术被认为是推进中心目标的重要因素。 我们期望将主任基金分配给应对环境灾难或需要迅速应对的独特环境卫生问题的特别项目。实例包括毁灭性的洪水，如2008年的爱荷华州洪水，对公众健康构成风险的大规模危险物质泄漏或爆炸。主任基金还可用于购买或更换设施核心设备中的一件关键设备，而在正常预算编制过程中无法预计到对这一设备的需求（例如，一件主要设备过早失效，或确定了一项对中心极为有益的新技术）。

6 ADMINISTRATIVE CORE 6.1 GOAL AND AIMS The goal of the Administrative Core is to support the EHSRC in achieving its vision and aims by the coordination, integration and assessment of Center cores, facilities, membership, activities and budgets. The specific aims of the Administrative Core are to: Aim 1) Provide direction and leadership to promote the vision, goals and aims of the Center; Aim 2) Provide interdisciplinary coordination and foster interactions between Center members, research cores, and facilities; Aim 3) Administer the Pilot Grant Program, Career Development Program and Director's Fund; Aim 4) Promote environmental health outreach through administrative support of COEC; Aim 5) Assess and document the productivity and effectiveness of Center activities; Aim 6) Foster interactions with NIEHS, Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Centers elsewhere and with other EHS organizations; and Aim 7) Leverage institutional resources for the Center. The Administrative Core plays a central role under the guidance of the Internal and External Advisory Committees. The Administrative Core interacts with all Research Cores, Facility Cores, the COEC and the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training (DERT) to foster interactions and advance the goals and aims of the Center as well as those of NIEHS. The Administrative Core provides assessment of the productivity and effectiveness of EHSRC components and determines the appropriateness of Center activities. The Core is responsible for the submission and management of competing, non-competing and supplemental grant proposals. The Core also responds to inquiries from NIEHS, the University or the College of Public Health regarding activities of the EHSRC and connects the Research Cores with COEC Activities. 6.7 DIRECTOR'S FUND A Director's Fund has been added by NIEHS as an option to the Core Centers program since our last competitive renewal. In this renewal application we have elected to institute a Director's Fund budgeted at $50,000/year. This fund will be under the purview of the IAC with final decisions made by the Center Director in consultation with the Deputy Director. Effectiveness of the Director's Fund allocations will be monitored by the Center Deputy Director and reviewed annually by the Internal and the External Advisory Committees. Anticipated uses of the Director's Fund include: 1) timely response to emerging environmental health issues or disasters; 2) purchase or replacement of a device essential to center facility operations: and 3) development of new technology identified as important to advancing center goals. We expected to allocate the Director's Funds for special projects that respond to an environmental disaster or a unique environmental health issue requiring a rapid response. Examples include devastating floods such as the Iowa Floods of 2008, large scale hazardous substance spills or explosions that pose a risk to public health. The Director's Fund may also be used to purchase or replace a key piece of Facility Core equipment, the need for which could not have been anticipated in the regular budgeting process (e.g. premature failure of a major piece of equipment, or the identification of a new technology that would be of great benefit to the Center).