Deadline: 11 October 2024
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Environmental Justice (EJ) Scholars Program invites EJ expertise, knowledge, and skills from research scholars, academics, public health and health care professionals, and EJ leaders from community-based organizations to work with staff members at various NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs).
Aims
- The EJ Scholars Program aims to:
- Build NIH capacity to advance EJ-related research, programs, and other NIH ICO projects.
- Increase staff and community awareness and skills to address EJ issues.
- Grow and strengthen the NIH network of EJ resource experts.
- Contribute to NIH goals to support underserved and under resourced communities.
Focus Areas
- Scholars should have demonstrated expertise in EJ areas that may include, but are not limited to:
- Behavioral and social sciences research
- Climate and environmental epidemiology
- Community engagement and partnerships
- Community organizing
- Community-based research
- Community-led and Tribal-led research community science
- Data mapping visualization
- Disaster response and research
- Environmental exposure and risk assessment
- Intervention strategies
- Traditional ecological knowledge Indigenous knowledge
- Community health work and Training
- Policy and regulation development and engagement
- Health equity research
- Translational research
- Implementation science
- Health disparities research
- Workforce training and development
- Women’s health research
- Inclusive health education and research Migrant immigrant health and research
- Communication research
- Youth EJ leadership training
Funding Information
- A stipend may be available. If you require a stipend (up to $25,000), please describe your need in your application package.
- Travel and living expenses for on-site EJ Scholars events may be available.
Eligible Projects
- Depending on ICO needs, scholars may support projects related to EJ topics such as:
- Climate change and climate justice
- Diet nutrition and food justice
- Land use and transportation
- Energy extraction and energy justice
- Maternal and child health, pregnancy outcomes
- Community-engaged research approaches
- Mental health consequences of environmental exposures
- Air quality, water pollution, and other environmental exposures
- Environmental impacts across the life course
- Interplay of environmental exposure, social determinants of health, and health disparities
- Translating, communicating, and disseminating research findings to different audiences in culturally appropriate modalities
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. and international mid-career to senior scientist candidates and environmental justice community leaders from academic, nonprofit, or private sectors are eligible to apply. Candidates should have a strong publication record in environmental justice and related health sciences (may include gray literature, such as infographics, podcasts, curriculum, policy statements, or training materials). This is not a postdoctoral training program. Candidates do not need to have an NIH funding record. U.S. citizenship is not required. Former EJ Scholar Program participants are ineligible for a second period of support.
- The program is open to recognized leaders in environmental justice from the following groups:
- Academic and research institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)
- Community, advocacy, charitable, and faith-based organizations
- Health care and public health organizations
- Tribal, state, and local government offices
For more information, visit NIH.
