Administrative Core (AC)

The goal of the Administrative Core (AC) is to ensure the Yale Superfund Research Center's (YSRC) success in advancing public health by providing effective leadership and oversight. The AC will coordinate the translation of the YSRC research by promoting and communicating new knowledge developed about emerging water contaminants and integrating its efforts with other stakeholders to support policy decisions.

The AC, comprised of a highly qualified administrative team, leads and provides oversight of the YSRC. It ensures that the YSRC achieves its goal of protecting public health by characterizing emerging water contaminants, elucidating their toxicity, assessing exposures to human populations, and detecting and remediating contamination.

The AC coordinates research projects and cores to:

1. Create new knowledge related to potential health effects, exposure detection, and remediation of 1,4-dioxane (1,4-DX) and common mixtures of co-occurring contaminants found at Superfund sites and in water supplies that are of high interest to the Superfund Research Program (SRP) and its stakeholders,
2. Promote research translation, dissemination, and utilization of the findings from the scientific activities in the YSRC, and...
3. Integrate efforts with other Superfund Research and Training Programs, the NIEHS, the EPA, and other stakeholders to achieve a greater national and international impact on policy decisions.

The AC plays a role in the overall program by ensuring communication, coordination, integration, and management of all YSRC components.

Director:
Vasilis Vasiliou, PhD

Deputy Directors:
Brian Leaderer, PhD
Jaehong Kim, PhD

Research Translation Coordinator:
Paul Anastas, PhD