Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 3, 2022 for those intending to submit by the January 10 sponsor deadline.
Sponsor Deadline: January 10, 2022 by 4 PM for the next quarterly review period. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through August 30, 2023.
Award Amount: $2,500 - $50,000. Overhead is not allowed whereas 15% is required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as with population-focused fields including epidemiology and public health, demography, economics, and urban planning are of particular interest. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or new interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, for example, developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large scale disruptions that will immediately impact human health and delivery of health care. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

This call focuses on developing partnerships. Proposals from single institutions must develop partnerships that do not already occur naturally. Proposals from departments that draw students from the same shared graduate program are not responsive to this call. Proposals from more than one institution are responsive. Only non-profit institutions may be supported by BWF’s award, but non-profits may involve for profit organizations in their proposals. This program does not support biomedical research projects proposed by individual investigators.

Organizations may submit multiple proposals, but an individual may only serve as a principal investigator/project director (PI/PD) on one application during each review period. Individuals may only serve twice as PI/PD for proposals supported over time by this program. Awardees and past awardees from other BWF programs are eligible to apply.