This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $360,234 to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research aimed at promoting resilience and reducing health disparities among racial/ethnic minority adolescents. The key goals are to: 1) understand how socioecological assets predict trajectories of "shift-and-persist" coping strategies across adolescence, 2)...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $3,410,763.00 to Texas A&M AgriLife Research to conduct a longitudinal mixed-methods study on the bidirectional relationship between social media use and mental health among 250 racially/ethnically minoritized adolescents and their primary caregivers. The 5-year study, beginning August 1, 2024, will use ecological momentary assessment and continuous screen...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, totaling $714,039, will fund a comprehensive study on the intersection of climate change, pediatric emergency care, and child health outcomes. The key objectives are to: 1) Identify geographic areas vulnerable to heatwaves that lack access to high-readiness pediatric emergency departments (EDs); 2) Evaluate the...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will fund a multi-site study to investigate the relationships between climate change-related extreme weather events and acute and chronic health outcomes in children. The $687,343 award to Drexel University will support efforts to: 1) estimate associations between extreme weather (hot temperatures, heatwaves, heavy rainfall, and intense...
This $525,764 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to examine the complex relationships between compounding climate events and youth mental health. The research team at Appalachian State University will leverage data from Crisis Text Line, a mobile crisis counseling service, to study how direct and indirect exposure to compounding climate events impacts youth mental health across the United...
This $3,690,905 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports the CATALYST (Community Climate Health Equity Research Center) initiative. The primary objective is to generate evidence on how extreme climate events, such as heat waves and poor air quality, impact health outcomes like hypertension and asthma among patients served by community health centers (CHCs) - organizations that provide...
This Project Grant award of $2,502,846, awarded on September 23, 2024 by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (CFDA 93.113 Environmental Health), establishes the Mni Sota Center for Climate Change and Health (M3CH) at the University of Minnesota. The center's objective is to develop regional research capacity on the health impacts of climate change, with a focus on American Indian and rural communities in the Upper Midwest. Key aims include building multidisciplinary...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (CFDA 93.310 - Trans-NIH Research Support) provides $510,470 to the University of Montana to empower rural students in Montana, Idaho, and Alaska to address public and climate health issues through research opportunities. The key objectives of this 1-year project are to: 1) Facilitate remote learning and STEM research opportunities for 1,200 middle and high school students per year, 2) Support student learning and career preparation...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research), provides $1,901,976 to George Washington University to conduct a community-driven modeling study on identifying policy and community-level interventions to address the impact of structural racism and discrimination on adolescent substance use and mental health outcomes. The project leverages data from a large longitudinal panel...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports a five-year study on the role of environmental exposures and allostatic load in risk and resilience to youth suicide attempts. The $739,843 award, with an effective date of September 1, 2024, will be led by the principal investigator at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The project involves secondary analysis of data...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will fund a research study titled "YOUTH CLIMATE ACTIVISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA: BUILDING PSYCHOSOCIAL RESILIENCE AMONG MINORITY YOUTH" at Seattle Children's Hospital, a non-profit pediatric research institution. The $865,056 award, effective from August 15, 2024 to February 28, 2026, will support a multi-faceted research effort to: 1) Analyze the network properties and content of influential climate activism social media accounts to inform strategies for enhancing the reach and impact of messages focused on climate-racial justice advocacy and minority mental health promotion; 2) Explore minority youth perceptions of how engaging with climate activism on social media impacts their mental health and behaviors; and 3) Co-design a minority-focused climate resilience social media campaign with youth and adult environmental health specialists based on the research findings. This project aims to contribute to the NIH's strategic framework for understanding the effects of climate change-induced stress on youth development and reducing the disproportionate impact of climate change on populations experiencing health disparities.