This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will support a multi-site study to examine the impact of extreme weather events on children's acute and chronic health outcomes. The $687,343 award to Drexel University will enable researchers to: Estimate associations between extreme weather events, such as high temperatures, heatwaves, heavy rainfall, and intense rainstorms, and a range of acute...
This 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 measure the demographic and health effects of climate exposures across the life course in Indonesia and Mexico. The $181,319 award, effective from August 2024 to July 2026, will link high-resolution climate data to individual-level data on fertility, migration, health, and socioeconomic status...
The federal Project Grant award R01ES036566 in the amount of $332,562.00 was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program. The funding supports a research project at Stony Brook University to develop a daily temperature model for the contiguous United States from 2000 to 2020, using satellite data, land use features, and elevation as predictors in a machine learning approach. The goal is to identify urban heat...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $275,765 to develop and test prototypes of personal active cooling garments to protect at-risk patients from extreme heat waves. The project, led by General Engineering & Research, L.L.C., leverages flexible thermoelectric technology to create a lightweight, adjustable cooling garment that can help patients with...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $3,690,905 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program to Ochin, Inc., a nonprofit health IT collaborative based in Portland, Oregon. The grant, titled "CATALYST (Community Climate Health Equity Research Center)," aims to generate evidence on how extreme climate events impact health outcomes in community health center (CHC) populations and identify interventions CHCs can enact to prepare...
This Project Grant award, totaling $315,682, was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The award will support Dr. Xiao Wu at Columbia University's Health Sciences Division in developing (1) an evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of heat warning systems and (2) an implementation framework to inform when and where to issue heat alerts to maximize health benefits. The research will...
This $211,988 federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.837), aims to evaluate low-energy cooling strategies to mitigate the adverse thermal, cardiovascular, and renal consequences of heat waves in the elderly. The key products and services to be delivered include: Testing the efficacy of skin wetting and fan use as cooling modalities to attenuate core body temperature...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $149,977 to Harvard College President & Fellows Of, through its Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Division, to develop novel statistical and deep learning methods. The research aims to address open challenges in understanding and mitigating health disparities related to climate change impacts like extreme heat and air...
This $1,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to advance the understanding of chronic heat hazards and associated risks in the urbanized subtropics, with a focus on the Florida region. The project, titled "RAISE: CHIRRP: Advancing Actionable Understanding of Chronic Heat Risks and Response Potentials in the Urbanized Subtropics," aims to develop new methods for measuring and managing chronic...
This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.837), provides $143,784 to investigate the physiological impacts of heat waves on elderly individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The project aims to: a) evaluate the cardiovascular, pulmonary, and thermoregulatory responses of older COPD patients to simulated heat wave exposures, and b) assess the efficacy of...
This federal Project Grant award, with an ID of R01HD117936, was issued by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The $714,039 grant supports a project titled "Heat Waves, Pediatric Readiness, and Child Outcomes: Risk, Mitigation, and Resilience in Emergency Care" at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).
The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) identify geographic areas with children vulnerable to heatwaves that lack access to high-readiness emergency departments (EDs), 2) evaluate the association of heatwaves with excess mortality and healthcare utilization across millions of children using prehospital, ED, and trauma center data, and 3) assess whether high-readiness EDs can mitigate excess mortality during heatwaves. The project will leverage data integration across 13 data sources, including weather data, pediatric census data, and emergency services records, to comprehensively evaluate the intersection of climate change, children, and emergency care.