Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Awards – Aug 31

Posted by Burroughs Wellcome Fund on July 11, 2023

Burroughs Wellcome Fund invites applications for Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Awards

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) invites applications for Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Awards.

The awards program provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health. This program will support both individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. Early career faculty and postdoctoral fellows nearing their transition to independence are especially encouraged to apply, whether individually or within teams.

The program aims to prime discovery in areas that are difficult to reach through discipline-specific, silo-driven approaches. BWF will provide flexible funding for conceiving and piloting work that will grow into productive and informative collaborations among researchers approaching connected questions from fields that usually do not interact. Proposals should be driven by broad questions that present significant potential for evidence-based discovery. Work that includes consideration of social justice in addition to evidence-based discovery is welcome.

Grants of $375,000 over three years will be awarded. Examples of projects might include but are not limited to the role of climate change in exacerbating vector-borne-and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), using “big data” to predictively model aspects of health impacted by climate change, engineering or architectural approaches to alleviating climate-related health risks, and developing new research tools at the interface of health and climate-informed disciplines.

Applications must be submitted by a single United States or Canadian institution, which will serve as the sole payee. Proposed teams may include researchers from beyond the U.S. and Canada, including those from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Letters of intent are due August 31, 2023, and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application by November 1, 2023.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: August 31, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. ET (Letters of Intent)