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...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $1,270,897 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program to establish the Research and Engagement for Action on Climate and Health (REACH) Center. The REACH Center is a multi-institutional partnership that leverages expertise in public health, medicine, public policy, earth and atmospheric sciences, and environmental justice to research the health and equity impacts of climate change mitigation and...
This $3,820,922 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will establish a Climate Change and Health Center focused on a "community-driven, health-first approach to climate action and the energy transition." The center's key innovations include developing a scenario health risk model for energy policy decision-making, conducting a pilot study on the impacts of climate change...
The University of Southern California (USC) received a $4,107,072 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The grant, awarded on September 17, 2024, will fund the "CLIMATE-RELATED EXPOSURES, ADAPTATION, AND HEALTH EQUITY (CLIMA) CENTER" project. The center aims to build a transdisciplinary research community and infrastructure to advance solution-oriented climate...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, will establish the Cincinnati Climate Change and Health Research Center (C3HRC) at the University of Cincinnati. The $1,354,820 award, provided over 3 years from September 2024 to August 2027, will support research to examine the health impacts of climate change-driven exposures to heat, pathogens, and environmental toxicants, and develop...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, will provide $162,024 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) over a 3-year period from February 2025 to January 2028. The grant will support the career development of Dr. Alexandra Heaney, a climate epidemiologist, to become a leader in interdisciplinary research on the health impacts of climate-related environmental hazards, such...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $1,147,169 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program to the Centro Comprensivo De Cancer De La Universidad De Puerto Rico. The grant, titled "The Caribbean Climate Change Adaptation, Cancer, and Health Disparities Research Center (CCCARIB-CARES)", will fund a collaborative research and capacity-building effort to assess the impact of climate change-related stressors on the cancer...
This $332,562 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports the development of a hyperlocal temperature model covering the contiguous United States from 2000-2020. The model will use satellite data, land use features, and elevation to predict daily temperatures at the 30m road segment level. This hyperlocal temperature data will then be used to identify urban heat islands, hot and cold...
This $2,502,846 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) will establish the Mni Sota Center for Climate Change and Health (M3CH) at the University of Minnesota. The center's key objectives are to: Build regional research capacity on the health impacts of climate change, with a focus on American Indian and rural communities in the Upper Midwest. Develop a community-engaged research agenda and culturally safe...
This $2,606,390 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports the establishment of the Center for Transformative Infectious Disease Research on Climate, Health and Equity in a Changing Environment (C-CHANGE) by Cornell University and the University of Pretoria. The center will conduct community-engaged research integrating climate, land-use, animal and human health, and genomic data...