AFRO-NETS> Research funding opportunity - Climate Variability and Human Health

[Andrea Egan <egana@mail.nih.gov>]

Research funding opportunity - Climate Variability and Human Health
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Dear Colleagues,

An opportunity for funding of research into Climate Variability and 
Human Health. They will accept applications from non-US institutions.

Andrea Egan
mailto:egana@mail.nih.gov


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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Na-
tional Science Foundation (NSF), the Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and 
the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) are pleased to announce 
their second round of funding for the Joint Announcement on Climate 
Variability and Human Health. The overarching goal of this announce-
ment is to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of new approaches 
or studies that investigate or validate well-formed hypotheses or 
models of climate variability and health interactions. This program 
is intended to support the formation of multidisciplinary teams work-
ing in close collaboration on integrated projects to illuminate path-
ways by which climate may affect human health, and which explore the 
potential for applying climate information toward a predictive capac-
ity in the public health arena.

Research proposals may also focus on adaptation or vulnerability of 
human and public health systems to climate variability, or an eco-
nomic analysis of decision processes that incorporate climate infor-
mation. Research teams are encouraged to involve end-users from the 
public health arena and to address the means by which their research 
results can be used by public health policy and decision-makers. Pro-
posals received in the first round were highly competitive. We expect 
to have approximately US$ 1.5 million available for this second round 
of proposals.

Dates: Pre-proposal due by January 31, 2001 Final submissions due by 
April 6, 2001

The full joint announcement may be found at:
http://www.ogp.noaa.gov

The Program can now accept proposals from or involving foreign insti-
tutions.

All submissions should be directed to:
Office of Global Programs (OGP);
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1225
Silver Spring, MD 20910-5603, USA

For further information contact:
Irma duPree at the above address
Tel: +1-301-427-2089, ext. 107
Fax: +1-301-427-2072
mailto:duPree@ogp.noaa.gov

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