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Now Accepting Applications: the C4Health Pilot Projects Program

Now Accepting Applications: the C4Health Pilot Projects Program

Funding is now available through the Cincinnati Center on Climate Change and Health (C4Health) Pilot Projects Program, with two award categories: Urban Resilience and Grassroots Collaboration. Applicants may request up to $25,000 for the Urban Resilience Awards and $20,000 for the Grassroots Collaboration Awards.

Urban Resilience Awards

The Urban Resilience Awards fund research proposing to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to address the following important domains for C4Health:

  • Enhancing health resilience through sustainable adaptation and mitigation strategies (e.g., urban planning, housing, transportation, air quality management, health services) to reduce exposure to heat, pathogens, or environmental toxicants
  • Basic, clinical, population, or behavioral research exploring the role of exposure to excessive heat, pathogens, or environmental toxicants on health

Eligibility: Faculty, senior research staff with doctoral-level training, and postdoctoral fellows are eligible to apply for Urban Resilience Pilot Awards.

Grassroots Collaboration Awards

The Grassroots Collaboration award program is a mechanism for supporting research that begins with community-level articulations of the health effects of climate change. We expect that potential projects will cover locally relevant pathways of health exposures to climate change, such as experiences with neighborhood-level greening/tree cover, hot/cold weather, asthma, air pollution, or any other areas that are relevant to the work/impact of the community partners submitting to this mechanism.

Eligibility: PIs for the Grassroots Collaboration Award must be members of the community. Community members are defined as students, educators, healthcare providers, public health professionals, and other interested people.

Application Requirements

Key Dates:

  • Applications are due by August 1st, 2025 at 5:00 PM.
  • Awards to be made by September 15th, 2025.
  • Budget end date: August 31st, 2026. All award funds must be invoiced/spent. There is no possibility of carryover.

Please refer to the 2025 C4Health Pilot Projects Program RFA for application instructions and additional information. Questions regarding the application and review process may be directed to the following: