The objective of the Administrative Core is to enhance institutional capacity to facilitate basic biomedical, clinical and behavioral research. The Administrative Core serves as a coordination and communications hub to create the conditions which maximize innovation, facilitate investigator interactions, promote resource sharing, foster transdisciplinary team science, accelerate career development of underrepresented minority researchers, and sustain community engagement. The inclusion of a health policy advisor and program evaluator fosters information dissemination and sustainable interventions based upon health disparities research and continuous improvement.