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Climate change impacts the social determinants of health, environmental influences on health, infection biology, and more. Projects must have a significant climate-focused scholarly component: simply stating that climate change influences a chosen aspect of health is insufficient. This does not mean that projects are limited to ones demonstrating the extent to which climate impacts an aspect of health, but rather than the involvement of climate-focused thinking must be substantially greater than stating some aspect of climate change will impact health. Stimulating and supporting interdisciplinarity beyond frequently-connected disciplines is a key element of this grant program. For example, climate insights might make predictions that biological or epidemiological work might test, or geological thinking might lead to testable predictions about biology or public health. 

Examples of projects might include but are not limited to the following:

• 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
• Developing new research tools at the interface of health and climate-informed disciplines