The Population Research Institute

摘要 气候变化对人类健康的影响可能是巨大的、压倒性的负面影响，以及 分配不均。记录和减轻气候对健康的影响需要在以下方面进行大量投资 基础设施和能力建设，最近的国家卫生研究院(NIH)倡议确认了这一点。 此外，人口健康科学家必须扩大他们的方法学工具包，并形成新的合作 无论是在该领域内，还是与气候科学专家都是如此。为了解决这些差距，人口研究 宾夕法尼亚州立大学研究所(PRI)申请补充资金以支持一个新的主要研究领域(PRA) 在其人口动态中心研究基础设施下的气候变化与健康(CCH) 响应特别关注通知的计划拨款(2P2CHD041025-21)(23-06)：气候变化和 卫生行政补充品。拟议的活动涉及NIH CCH倡议的三个核心支柱： 健康影响研究、健康公平、培训和能力建设。宾夕法尼亚州立大学拥有独特的优势 在人口健康和气候科学方面，然而它们的交集--CCH--是一个新兴的研究领域， 这一领域的许多PRI研究人员都是早期调查人员。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、多种专业知识的能力 团队；帮助研究CCH的教师成为NIH资助活跃的人口科学家；增加 其他希望进入CCH研究的教员；并扩大我们由NICHD资助的CCH项目的组合。至 为了达到这些目标，我们将从以下几个方面扩大中心助学金的初始目标。扩展父项 目标1，我们将在CCH中增加一个新的PRA，由本目标2-4中描述的资源和活动支持 申请。扩展家长目标2，我们将：a)聘请在CCH工作的教员领导一个新的工作组， 促进研究合作和NICHD资助的CCH研究；b)补充PRI棕色袋子系列 与四名外部CCH演讲者合作；c)主办“CCH 101”研讨会，提供有关措施、方法、 和研究CCH的框架，并促进发展新的研究团队和项目；和d) 为四笔有针对性的种子赠款提供资金，以激励形成跨学科团队并支持发展 在CCH中新的NICHD应用。种子基金获得者还将通过以下方式收到对其申请的反馈 需要参加PRI的拨款撰写工作组。扩展家长目标3，我们将提供数据 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 团队使用气候和健康数据为他们的CCH赠款申请进行初步研究。扩展 父目标4，我们将f)投入更多资源，使PRI的行政核心能够支持提议的 CCH活动。所要求的补充资金将有助于在这方面制定新的个人补助金 研究领域和定位PRI将CCH纳入其由NICHD支持的P2C基础设施赠款的续签。

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.