Cooperative Agreement U01TW010097

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $199,416 cooperative agreement to The George Washington University under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program. The agreement will support the university's work to evaluate the value of atmospheric composition data from the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer-Ozone instrument for estimating air pollution-related health impacts over a one-year period ending July 31, 2022. As part of this effort, the university will...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides $419,011 in funding to Emory University to develop innovative dimension reduction techniques based on causal structural models. The goal is to improve assessments of the combined health effects of complex air pollution mixtures, spanning criteria pollutants, fine particulates, and volatile organic compounds. The research will leverage...

This $520,512 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program will fund a 3-year effort to establish a community-driven network platform to monitor outdoor and indoor air quality across underserved neighborhoods in New York State. Key activities include deploying 21 air quality monitoring sensors,...

This $174,323 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a study to examine the association between residential ambient air pollution and pediatric hospitalizations due to acute respiratory disease across New York State. The study will utilize existing administrative hospital data from the New York Department of Health Planning and Research...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 awarded a $510,211 Project Grant to Health Resources In Action, Inc. (HRIA) doing business as The Medical Foundation under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034). HRIA will conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants in environmental justice communities in Massachusetts disproportionately impacted by pollution and COVID-19. Activities include...

This $440,485 Project Grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program provides funding to the Ecology Action Center (EAC) to conduct ambient air quality monitoring in communities in the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois area with environmental and health disparities stemming from pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic. EAC will...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $500,000 and issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" program (CFDA 66.034), will support community-based ambient air quality monitoring efforts in the South Bronx, New York. The primary activities will involve establishing air quality monitoring teams and infrastructure in several South Bronx...

This $1,349,998 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA #66.509) supports research by Emory University to understand cumulative health impacts from chemical and non-chemical exposures exacerbated by climate change in vulnerable Atlanta communities. The research will develop a neighborhood-level index mapping cumulative exposures and their effects on health. It will examine how individuals with chronic diseases perceive and...

This $1,354,820 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, will establish the Cincinnati Climate Change and Health Research Center (C3HRC) at the University of Cincinnati. The center will conduct research on the health impacts of climate change-driven exposures to heat, pathogens, and environmental toxicants, with a focus on identifying interventions to promote resilience in...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $1,377,026.00 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 Environmental Health) to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to assess how randomized early life air pollution exposure programs impact the development of the microbiome and virome over childhood, and how these changes are associated with lung function and growth. The research aims to build on an existing pregnancy cohort study in Ghana, the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution...