Limited Submission Opportunity: Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers 2025
OBJECTIVES
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers is a new institutional research and training opportunity that will help institutions bridge the gaps between fields that will have important roles to play in understanding the impacts of climate change on human health and diminishing their effects.
This grant will support new discovery toward defining the health impacts of climate change, developing potential interventions, translating discovery science into practical application, and outward-facing work that can help public understanding of Climate + Health or strengthen connections between research and communities whose health has been harmed by climate change. Our goal is to help these Centers of Excellence achieve their strategic goals by supporting activities that help build stable collaborations between people, departments, and institutions.
Conveying to the public ideas about how climate change and human health are linked is important for the flow of insights from discovery research into health interventions. For this reason, successful applications will bring general (non-postgraduate) education or public communication into their vision of shared common ground. Either education or communication should be a substantial element of the proposal.
FUNDING INFORMATION
Up to $2 million per year for 5 years ($10 million total).
ELIGIBILITY
BU may only submit one application.
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
For this LSO, senior leadership is coordinating a BU application submission; as such, there will be no internal competition.
Investigators interested in being a part of the coordinated submission must receive prior approval from the Vice President and Associate Provost for Research (Thomas Bifano) and the Office of Research. Please send an email to tgb@bu.edu and research@bu.edu and addressed to Thomas Bifano by 3/14/2025.
DEADLINES
Expression of Interest Email Due: Friday, March 14, 2025 by 5:00 pm EDT
LOI Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025 by 3:00 pm ET