Administrative Core

C-EARTH Administration Core Summary/Abstract: The success of the Center for Climate: Equitable and Accessible Research-based Testing for Health (C-EARTH) will depend largely on efficient communication, planning, and synergy among the project, cores, and activities. To accomplish this, the Administrative Core will

provide an infrastructure for logistical and scientific oversight, coordination, and integration of C- EARTH, ensuring the synthesis of C-EARTH components and activities towards solutions- oriented translation of findings in support of two themes of the P20 RFA: 1) to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, uptake, and spread of interventions to promote preparedness and

adaptation to anticipated health impacts of climate change at individual, community, regional, or national levels; and 2) to explore climate-related vulnerabilities in nutritional security in disadvantaged communities to inform culturally sensitive and sustainable solutions. The Administrative Core will serve as a central forum for communication among investigators across

the project and cores, coordination to establish and maintain partnerships to engage communities most likely to be impacted by climate change, and active participation in the NIH Research Coordinating Center. We will also carry out career development plans and evaluations for our early stage faculty and researchers. The core’s activities will ensure

sustainable research capacity by managing the utilization of centralized resources and research infrastructure. The Administrative Core will also oversee a robust data infrastructure and management plan, providing the framework necessary for seamless data management, sharing, and analysis. In particular, the Administrative Core will implement innovative databases and

tools for climate readiness for communities and for mapping high-resolution apparent temperature at scale. These resources will support the research and core activities throughout C-EARTH. With a strong supportive structure in place, C-EARTH will create a premiere environment for translational research on the health consequences of climate change.