Research Coordinating Center to Support Climate Change and Health Community of Practice
The Climate Change and Health Initiative (CCH) is a NIH-wide research effort established to address the effects/implications of climate change on the health of populations and create the evidence base to inform the response needed to improve health outcomes. To support this initiative NIH seeks applications to create a Research Coordinating Center to support the development of an NIH CCH Community of Practice (COP) by managing and supporting current CCH research and capacity building efforts and supporting the expansion of the COP in the long term. Climate change greatly elevates threats to human health across a wide range of illnesses and injuries. Adverse health impacts include asthma, respiratory airway and pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular disease and stroke, heat-related illness and deaths, allergic hypersensitivities and infectious diseases (notably, water-borne, food-borne, vector-borne, and zoonotic diseases), reproductive, birth outcome, and developmental effects, mental health disorders, and extreme weather-related morbidity and mortality Strong evidence indicates that climate change also disproportionately adversely affects communities that experience social and environmental vulnerabilities.
Deadline: August 25, 2022