Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers
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Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers are specialized research hubs that support multidisciplinary studies on how environmental factors affect human health, providing shared resources, expertise, and infrastructure to investigators.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental health research infrastructure
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research center program → |
| approach |
integration of basic, clinical, and population research
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multidisciplinary collaboration → team science → |
| benefits |
communities affected by environmental health issues
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institutions seeking to build environmental health research capacity → investigators lacking local specialized environmental health resources → |
| contributesTo |
advancement of environmental health knowledge
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evidence base for environmental health policy → training of the next generation of environmental health scientists → |
| enables |
efficient use of specialized equipment and facilities
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sharing of environmental health data and expertise → standardization of environmental health research methods → |
| field |
biomedical research
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environmental health sciences → public health → |
| focusesOn |
environmental exposures and human disease
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mechanisms by which environmental agents affect health → prevention of environmentally related diseases → translation of basic environmental health findings to clinical and public health applications → |
| hasComponent |
administrative core
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community engagement activities → facility cores → integrated research cores → pilot project programs → |
| provides |
biostatistics and data analysis support
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exposure assessment expertise → laboratory facilities → research design consultation → shared instrumentation → training opportunities in environmental health sciences → |
| purpose |
enhance translation of environmental health research to public health practice
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foster collaboration among environmental health scientists → provide shared research resources to environmental health investigators → support community-engaged environmental health research → support multidisciplinary research on how environmental factors affect human health → |
| supports |
early-stage environmental health investigators
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investigators studying environmental exposures → multidisciplinary research teams → |
| typicalActivities |
development of new methods for measuring environmental exposures
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dissemination of environmental health research findings to the public → engagement with stakeholders on environmental health concerns → organization of seminars and workshops in environmental health sciences → support of pilot and feasibility environmental health projects → |
Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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hasProgram |