Administrative Core

PROJECT SUMMARY (ADMINISTRATIVE CORE) The mission of the University of Southern California (USC) CLIMAte-Related Exposures, Adaptation, and Health Equity (CLIMA) Center is to develop the scientific knowledge base, investigator teams, and community engagement needed to identify mitigation and adaptation strategies to reduce the burden of disease and

disability from climate change and increase individual to community climate resilience. The CLIMA Administrative Core (AC) will play a critically important role in establishing and maintaining an integrative infrastructure for CLIMA Cores, Research Projects, and investigators, and building new research infrastructure and data pipelines

for climate and health research in partnership with USC and other climate science partner institutions across southern California. The AC will function as the primary supporter of ensuring all scientific and programmatic functions of the CLIMA Center are coordinated and integrated across all components and all resources are

responsibly and efficiently managed. The AC will support CLIMA through the following aims: (1) provide an integrated infrastructure for all scientific and administrative CLIMA resources and establish an intentional vision and culture for collaborative, transdisciplinary team science; (2) cultivate Youth Climate Action Fellows and

junior, mid-career, and senior investigators' careers and research programs in Climate Change, Adaptation, and Health (CCAH) to advance CLIMA objectives; (3) promote and organize interactions with the larger CCAH research and policy community; and (4) monitor and evaluate the productivity and success of CLIMA programs

and activities and provide fiscal, resource, and reporting oversight and management.