This is not a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO).

The NIH Health and Extreme Weather (HEW) Program aims to support research to increase understanding of how extreme weather, including weather-related natural disasters and emerging weather-related harms, impacts human health. Participating Institutes and Centers include NIDDK*, NIA, and NIAID. A non-exhaustive list of areas of interest is below:

NIDDK:

• Observational studies and clinical trials that address the health effects of discontinuity in care from lack of medications or electricity-dependent treatments due to extreme weather.
• On acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and kidney stones: Mechanistic, observational studies and clinical trials that address the effects of extreme weather.
• Mechanistic studies that utilize environmental data and measures of kidney function and injury to address causes and treatments.

NIA:

• Short- and long-term changes in aging-related processes, including those at the molecular, cellular, and physiological levels; the pace of aging; and functional and cognitive abilities.
• Impact of age-related changes in affective, social, and cognitive factors on individual responses, and how behavior changes needed for preparedness and adaptation are initiated and maintained.
• Economic and systems research toward changes for healthcare preparedness and health services delivery to prevent and/or mitigate mortality and morbidity.
• Studies that develop, test, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions or educational resources for specific older adult populations, including within care facilities.

NIAID:

• Immune responses relevant to the development, prevention and management of auto-immune/autoinflammatory disease in children and adults;
• Zoonotic, food-, water-, and vector-borne pathogens, especially with respect to their reproductive capacity, transmissibility, epidemiology, and virulence, including changes in susceptibility to anti-infective interventions.

*NIDDK may give special consideration to support meritorious applications in this topic area.

Expires May 1, 2028.