NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative Bulletin 10.02.2024
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences sent this bulletin at 10/02/2024 04:24 PM EDT
Updates
October 2, 2024
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Climate Change and Health Initiative (NIH CCHI) launched a new website to support the needs of the growing climate change and human health research community.
The new website — curated with health, climate, and community engagement experts in mind — enables access to funding opportunities, the latest scientific findings, news, events, and training and capacity building resources.
Exploratory research centers catalyze climate and health research
Twenty-one centers will strengthen community-academic relationships to conduct climate change and health research.
The exploratory research centers will build teams dedicated to exploring various approaches to protect health and build resiliency at the individual, community, national, and global levels.
Community Engagement on Climate Change and Health in a Melting North
On September 18, 2024, Karsten Hueffer PhD, one of the principal investigators at the Alaska Fairbanks Alliance for Community Engagement Hub, presented a seminar on climate change and health in a melting North.
This seminar discussed the impacts of climate change on the Alaska Native population. It also highlighted the variety of ways the Alaska Community Engagement Hub works with indigenous communities to build community-driven interventions that foster adaptive capacity and climate resilience.
This webinar was hosted by the Alliance for Community Engagement on Climate and Health as part of the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative Seminar Series.
The Global Forum on Humanitarian Health Research (GFH2R) seeks to elevate the voice of researchers from settings affected by humanitarian crises, especially low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), through a series of webinars and an in-person meeting in Nairobi, Kenya in May 2025.
To learn more, review the call for applications, or register for the webinar, see here.
