This 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 impacts of early-life and adolescent exposure to climate variability on the fertility, health, migration, and socioeconomic outcomes of working-age adults in Indonesia and Mexico. The $181,319 award to The Pennsylvania State University will leverage data from the Indonesian and Mexican Family...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under CFDA 93.866 Aging Research provides $413,476 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on the acquisition of disability and chronic morbidity by older Indians following extreme urban coastal flooding events. The study aims to: (1) estimate the impact of these extreme flooding events on disability and chronic disease in the urban older population in India; (2) analyze changes in housing, living...
The University of Washington received a $760,779 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to conduct a geographically granular assessment of the present and future impacts of extreme temperature on aging populations in the United States by race and ethnicity. The 5-year research project, beginning January 1, 2025, aims to estimate the burden of extreme temperature, understand how risk factors modify the effects, and assess the potential for risk...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $5,589,644 Project Grant under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Health Sciences Division, for the Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change (CHART) Center. The grant, with a project period from Sep 30, 2024 to Mar 14, 2025, aims to establish a transformative and integrative framework for evidence-based solutions in climate and health research across...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $124,875 project grant (CFDA 93.866) to the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston, MA to study the effects of the home thermal environment on the health and well-being of low-income older adults. The 5-year grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, will continuously measure the home temperature conditions of 50 low-income older adults living in subsidized housing in Boston. Participants will use wearable devices to track sleep, gait, and self-reported...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $1,584,450 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the University of Colorado Boulder to develop the Virtual Center on Aging, Climate, and Health (CACHE). This center will focus on accelerating research on the disproportionate health impacts of climate change on older adults, including higher mortality, injury rates, and mental health issues like post-traumatic stress. Over the 2-year R61 phase, CACHE will conduct demonstration research...
This $839,262 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will support a multilevel investigation into the effects of migration on the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) among Mexican Americans. Conducted by the Trustees of Columbia University, the study will leverage a unique binational dataset to (1) estimate the impact of migration, US residence, and acculturation on cognitive function and dementia risk, (2) evaluate how...
This $595,043 Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The grant titled "PURE-CLIMATE: IDENTIFYING AND ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE AS A MODIFIABLE RISK FACTOR FOR HUMAN HEALTH" will leverage the existing infrastructure and data of the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study to establish a global study on the impacts of climate change on human...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $7,698,402 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program to Brown University to establish the "Climate, Health, and Aging Innovation and Research Solutions for Communities (CHAIRS-C)" center. The center aims to advance science on the adverse health impacts of climate change, particularly for aging populations, and develop solutions to promote healthy aging. Key objectives...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), will build a comprehensive database of all enumerated places in the U.S. since 1890 and verify any settlements that have been abandoned since then. The $425,184 grant, awarded on Sep 1, 2024 with a completion date of Aug 31, 2026, will then leverage this database to estimate the causal effect of settlement abandonment on longevity using a synthetic control design. A...