Exposure Assessment Facility/Service Cores

目标、理由和具体目标 暴露评估设施核心的主要目的是加强研究能力 曼哈顿北部环境健康中心(CEHNM)的调查人员通过提供 大学其他地方没有的相关活动和服务的数量，包括曝光设计， 方法制定、采样和分析。 该基金核心支持制定和实施暴露评估，以支持 通过协调为CEHNM的研究、试点研究、新的研究举措和推广活动提供资金 以下服务和活动： 研究设计、方法开发、设计和开发新的采样设备，空气 采样和分析能力； ？扩大这些设施和努力，以支持CEHNM不断演变的战略目标； 。对工作人员、学生和研究人员进行培训和指导； ·应对暴露的紧急情况； 响应社区推广和教育核心(COEC)和当地社区的需求 以多种方式进行组织，包括在公开听证会上作证和开展试点 测试可感知的空气污染源是否存在并可记录在案。 该设施核心结合了梅尔曼公共卫生学院的分析能力和专业知识 (MSPH)和拉蒙特-多尔蒂地球天文台(LDEO)。暴露评估的主要焦点 设施核心是对环境样本而不是生物样本进行采样和分析。分析了几个问题 接触的生物标记物由痕量金属设施核心和综合健康科学解决 设施核心，血液中的铅同位素比率除外，这是在LDEO分析的。一大强项 多个工作组正在制定新的倡议和项目。委员会成员 曝光核心参与许多这样的小组，以协助设计新的曝光方法和 针对特定研究目标的标记

Objectives, Rationale and Specific Aims The primary purpose of the Exposure Assessment Facility Core is to enhance the research capabilities of Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan (CEHNM) investigators by providing expertise in a number of related activities and services not available elsewhere in the University, including exposure design, method development, sampling and analysis. This Facility Core supports the development and implementation of exposure assessments in support of funded research, pilot studies, new research initiatives, and outreach activities of the CEHNM by coordinating the following services and activities: ¿ study design, methods development, design and development of new sampling equipment, air sampling, and analytical capabilities; ¿ expansion of these facilities and efforts in ways that support the evolving strategic goals of the CEHNM; . ¿ training and mentoring of staff, students and researchers; ¿ responding to exposure emergencies; ¿ responding to the needs of the Community Outreach and Education Core (COEC) and local community ograniziations in a number of ways, including testifying in public hearings and carrying out pilot field work to test whether perceived sources of air pollution exist and can be documented. This Facility Core combines analytical capabilities and expertise at the Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH) and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO). The primary focus of the Exposure Assessment Facility Core is on sampling and analysis of environmental rather than biological samples. The analysis of biomarkers of exposure are addressed by the Trace Metals Facility Core and the Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core, with the exception of lead isotope ratios in blood, which are analyzed at LDEO. A major strength of the CEHNM is the multiple working groups that are developing new initiatives and projects. Members of the Exposure Core participate in many of these groups to assist in the design of new exposure methods and markers that address specific research goals