This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) Federal Grant Program provides $676,077 to Colorado State University (CSU) to study the impacts of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution on cardiovascular and respiratory health outcomes. The key products and services being delivered under this award include: Deploying a national network to measure the oxidative potential of PM2.5 samples, which...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $893,525 to The Johns Hopkins University to implement and evaluate a multi-component intervention to protect lung health in Nepal. The 5-year project aims to reduce environmental risk factors like tobacco smoking and air pollution, as well as infectious risks, through community health worker-delivered education, household...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $702,364 to Yale University to conduct a nationwide analysis investigating the health impacts of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure from different source sectors and fuel types. The key objectives are to: Estimate PM2.5 exposure by chemical components, source sectors, and fuel types across the continental U.S. from...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $2,502,846 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program to establish the Mni Sota Center for Climate Change and Health (M3CH) at the University of Minnesota. The project aims to develop regional capacity for research on the health impacts of climate change, with a focus on American Indian and rural populations in the Upper Midwest. Key objectives include: Building regional research...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $241,811 to the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University to investigate the impact of air pollution exposure and social vulnerability on the incidence of progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) in patients with interstitial lung disease. The key objectives are to: (1) evaluate the relative and combined...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides $419,011 to Emory University to develop innovative dimensionality reduction techniques for assessing the joint health effects of air pollution mixtures. The research aims to advance causal modeling approaches that preserve the relationships between air pollutants and health outcomes, in order to provide more accurate assessments of the public...
This $149,857 Project Grant, awarded on July 7, 2025 by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports research to investigate the role of inhaled particulate matter (PM) in exacerbating pulmonary vascular remodeling associated with pulmonary hypertension (PH). The research aims to define population-level associations between aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonism, plasma metabolites, and PH severity; determine if...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $650,875 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on August 6, 2024. The grant supports a 5-year research project titled "Driving Environmental Justice: Community Monitoring of Diesel Truck Emissions and Impacts on Asthma Morbidity in Immigrant Communities." The project aims to: 1) estimate the short-term health effects of black carbon exposure on...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $704,105 to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. to study the impact of multiple long-term environmental exposures on the incidence of asthma. The research will leverage data from several large prospective cohort studies, including the Nurses' Health Studies and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, to assess how factors like air...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $1,377,026.00 to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct a randomized controlled trial on prenatal and infant household air pollution exposure, the human microbiome and virome, and childhood lung function in Ghana. The research aims to assess how randomized early life air pollution exposure programs subsequent...