NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative

The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative is an urgent, cross-cutting NIH effort to reduce health threats from climate change across the lifespan and build health resilience in individuals, communities, and nations around the world, especially among those at highest risk.

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Strategic Framework

The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative Strategic Framework includes input from the scientific and stakeholder communities. The Framework provides the initial planning of how the NIH community will address climate change and health.

Funding and Career Opportunities

Graphic cog-wheel display of the strategic framework.

2022‐2023 NIH Climate and Health Scholars Program

The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative is excited to announce the Climate and Health Scholars Program, which is seeking to bring climate and health focused scientists from outside the U.S. federal government to work with NIH staff and build climate and health capacity. Program Overview.

  • We are no longer accepting applications for this year’s program. Should the Scholars Program reopen for future rounds, an announcement will be posted here.

Research Coordinating Center to Support Climate Change and Health Community of Practice (U24 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-ES-22-003
The deadline for submitting to this request has past, applications were due August 26, 2022. Awards are expected to be made in 2023.

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Climate Change and Health Administrative Supplements
NOT-TW-22-003
First Available Due Date: July 15, 2022
Expiration Date: July 27, 2022
This NOSI is for applications to supplement active NIH awards from the Institutes and Centers listed on the NOSI (FIC, NIBIB, NIDCD, NIDCR, NINR, NIMHD, NLM, NCCIH) to seed new activities and partnerships in climate change and health (CCH) research and research training. The NOSI welcomes applications both to grants already working in this area, and especially to grants that do not currently include CCH but can integrate this as a relevant component.

Research Opportunity Announcement Alliance for Community Engagement- Climate and Health (ACE-CH)
The deadline for Letters of Request has past, letters were due June 30, 2022. With this Research Opportunity Announcement, NIH solicited applications from teams to conduct community-engaged research focused on climate change impacts on health and the co-benefits of identifying the mitigation of climate change risks, vulnerabilities, and adaptation.

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Climate Change and Health
NOT-ES-22-006
First Available Due Date: July 08, 2022
Expiration Date: May 08, 2025
As part of the NIH-wide Climate Change and Health Initiative, this NOSI encourages applications that address the impact of climate change on health and well-being over the life course, including the health implications of climate change in the United States and globally.

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Innovative Technologies for Research on Climate Change and Human Health Small Business Technology Transfer (R41/R42 Clinical Trial Optional)
NOT-ES-22-009
First Available Due Date: September 5, 2022
Expiration Date: April 6, 2023
NOSI to develop or adapt practical technologies for capturing the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on human health and to reduce the health threats posed by climate change across the lifespan.

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Innovative Technologies for Research on Climate Change and Human Health Small Business Innovation Research (R43/R44 Clinical Trial Optional)
NOT -ES-22-010
First Available Due Date: September 5, 2022
Expiration Date: April 6, 2023
NOSI to develop or adapt practical technologies for capturing the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on human health and to reduce the health threats posed by climate change across the lifespan.

Seminar Series

NIH Institutes and Centers (IC) have joined forces to educate and inform colleagues and the public about the human health implications of climate change. This series will present webinars from different ICs highlighting work in the field of climate change while promoting transdisciplinary discussion and collaboration in this concerted effort against an extreme threat to health.

Literature Portal

Locate the most relevant scientific literature on the health implications of climate change.

Climate Change and Health Literature Portal

Participating Institutes and Centers

The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative is led by an Executive Committee comprising the Directors of seven NIH Institutes and Centers. The NIEHS Director chairs the Executive Committee and NIEHS provides the Initiative's administrative home.

Executive Committee

NIH Climate Change and Health Working Group

Aubrey Miller, M.D., NIEHS, Co-chair
Joshua Rosenthal, Ph.D., FIC, Co-chair
Gwen Collman, Ph.D., NIEHS, Strategic Advisor

Steering Committee

Regina Bures
Program Director;
Population Dynamics Branch;
NIH/NICHD
regina.bures@nih.gov

Larry Fine
NIH/NHLBI
finel@nhlbi.nih.gov

B.F. ‘Lee’ Hall
Chief, Parasitology and International Programs Branch
NIH/NIAID
lhall@niaid.nih.gov

Flora Katz
Director, Division of International Training and Research;
NIH/FIC
katzf@mail.nih.gov

Megan Kinnane
Senior Advisor to the Director;
NIH/NIMH
megan.kinnane@nih.gov

Aubrey Miller
Senior Medical Advisor
NIH/NIEHS
miller.aubrey@nih.gov

Ivan Navarro
NIH/NIMHD
ivan.navarro@nih.gov

Louise Rosenbaum
Science Policy Analyst;
NIH/NINR
rosenbauml@mail.nih.gov

Joshua Rosenthal
Senior Scientist;
Division of Epidemiology and Population Studies
NIH/FIC
joshua.rosenthal@nih.gov

Claudia Thompson
Chief, Population Health Branch;
Division of Extramural Research and Training;
NIH/NIEHS
thompso1@niehs.nih.gov

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