Sharon A. Croisant, MS, PhD, a tenured Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the UTMB School of Public and Population Health, has >20 years of experience in leading community-engaged research and outreach. She is heavily involved in building interfaces between and among environmental research, education, and community health, emphasizing a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach. Community-based research is an important focus of her work, primarily in response to emergent environmental health issues experienced by Gulf Coast communities, including natural and manmade disasters. She is the Director of Community Engagement for the UTMB Institute for Translational Sciences and Director of the Community Engagement Core for the Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health (GC-CPEH), which is a P30 Environmental Health Sciences Core Center funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The GC-CPEH, a partnership between UTMB, Baylor College of Medicine, and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, is the focal point and catalyst for environmental health research in the Texas Medical Center, driving collaborative and multidisciplinary research and serving the community engagement and policy needs of the Gulf Coast region. She further directs community engagement for the Baylor-Rice Superfund Research Program, also funded by the NIEHS. 

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