The Population Research Institute

人口研究所

基本信息

批准号：
10838082
负责人：
JENNIFER Van Hook
金额：
$ 57.41万
依托单位：
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-09-01 至 2026-03-31
项目状态：
未结题

项目摘要

Abstract The impacts of climate change on human health are likely to be significant, overwhelmingly negative, and unequally distributed. Documenting and mitigating climate impacts on health requires significant investments in infrastructure and capacity building, as recognized by recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiatives. Additionally, population health scientists must expand their methodological toolkits and form new collaborations both within the field and with experts in climate sciences. To address these gaps, the Population Research Institute (PRI) at Penn State requests supplemental funding to support a new primary research area (PRA) in climate change and health (CCH) under its Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure Program grant (2P2CHD041025-21) in response to the Notice of Special Interest (23-06): Climate Change and Health Administrative Supplements. Proposed activities address three core pillars of the NIH CCH initiative: Health Effects Research, Health Equity, and Training and Capacity Building. Penn State has unique strengths in both population health and climate science, yet their intersection—CCH—is a newly emerging research area, and many PRI researchers in this space are early-stage investigators. Our overarching goals are to increase PRI’s capacity to bring population health and climate scientists together to form interdisciplinary, multi-expertise teams; help faculty who study CCH to become NIH grant-active population scientists; increase expertise among other faculty who want to move into CCH research; and expand our portfolio of NICHD-funded CCH projects. To reach these goals, we will expand the initial aims of the center grant in the following ways. Extending Parent Aim 1, we will add a new PRA in CCH, supported by resources and activities described in Aims 2-4 of this application. Extending Parent Aim 2, we will: a) engage faculty working in CCH to lead a new working group that fosters research collaborations and NICHD-funded research in CCH; b) supplement the PRI brown bag series with four external CCH speakers; c) host a “CCH 101” workshop to provide instruction in measures, methods, and frameworks for studying CCH, and promote the development of new research teams and projects; and d) fund four targeted seed grants to incentivize the formation of interdisciplinary teams and support the development of new NICHD applications in CCH. Seed grant recipients will also receive feedback on their applications through required participation in PRI’s grant writing working group. Extending Parent Aim 3, we will e) provide data acquisition and programming support, via PRI’s Computational and Spatial Analysis Core, to help research teams use climate and health data to conduct preliminary research for their CCH grant applications. Extending Parent Aim 4, we will f) invest additional resources to enable PRI’s Administrative Core to support the proposed CCH activities. The requested supplemental funds will facilitate the development of new individual grants in this research area and position PRI to include CCH in the renewal of its NICHD-supported P2C infrastructure grant.

抽象的气候变化对人类健康的影响可能是重大的、绝大多数是负面的，并且记录和减轻气候对健康的影响需要大量投资。美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH) 最近的举措认可了基础设施和能力建设。此外，人口健康科学家必须扩展他们的方法工具包并形成新的合作为了解决这些差距，人口研究中心在该领域内和气候科学专家的帮助下进行了研究。宾夕法尼亚州立大学研究所 (PRI) 请求补充资金以支持新的主要研究领域 (PRA) 在其人口动态中心研究基础设施下开展气候变化与健康（CCH）研究响应特别关注通知 (23-06) 的计划拨款 (2P2CHD041025-21)：气候变化和卫生行政补充文件提出了 NIH CCH 倡议的三个核心支柱：健康影响研究、健康公平以及培训和能力建设宾夕法尼亚州立大学具有独特的优势。人口健康和气候科学，但它们的交叉点——CCH——是一个新兴的研究领域，该领域的许多 PRI 研究人员都是早期研究人员，我们的首要目标是增加。 PRI 将人口健康和气候科学家聚集在一起形成跨学科、多专业知识的能力团队；帮助研究 CCH 的教师成为 NIH 资助的活跃人口科学家；其他想要从事 CCH 研究的教师；并扩大 NICHD 资助的 CCH 项目组合。为了实现这些目标，我们将通过以下方式扩大中心赠款的初步目标。目标 1，我们将在 CCH 中添加一个新的 PRA，并得到本目标 2-4 中描述的资源和活动的支持扩展家长目标 2，我们将： a) 聘请 CCH 工作人员领导一个新的工作组，该工作组负责促进 CCH 领域的研究合作和 NICHD 资助的研究 b) 补充 PRI 棕色包系列；与四名外部 CCH 发言人合作； c) 举办“CCH 101”研讨会，提供有关措施、方法、研究 CCH 的框架，并促进新研究团队和项目的发展；以及资助四笔有针对性的种子补助金，以激励跨学科团队的组建并支持发展 CCH 中的新 NICHD 申请获得者也将通过以下方式收到有关其申请的反馈。如果需要参与 PRI 的资助写作工作组，我们将 e) 提供数据。通过 PRI 的计算和空间分析核心提供采集和编程支持，以帮助研究团队利用气候和健康数据对其 CCH 拨款申请进行初步研究。家长目标 4，我们将 f) 投入额外资源，使 PRI 的管理核心能够支持拟议的 CCH 活动所要求的补充资金将促进新的个人赠款的开发。研究领域并定位 PRI 将 CCH 纳入其 NICHD 支持的 P2C 基础设施拨款的更新中。