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The Center for Climate and Environmental Health examines the profound connections between our changing climate, environment, and human health. Through innovative research, education, communication, and collaboration with community and civic partners, we work to:
- Understand and predict health threats from climate change, extreme weather, and environmental pollution
- Implement scalable action-oriented solutions
- Educate and empower the next generation of climate-literate scholars across all disciplines
Our first initiative, FORECAST (Forecasting Health Outcomes through Research, Education, Climate Action, and Sustainability for Texas), is part of the Burroughs Wellcome Climate + Health Excellence Center with our consortium partners Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas School of Public Health.
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Rice and TMC Partners Secure Climate Health Consortium Grant to Face Climate Change and Human Health
Rice University News
A team of climate and environmental scientists, educators, epidemiologists and infectious disease researchers from Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, and the University of Texas School of Public Health has been awarded the inaugural Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) award — a $10 million grant to build FORECAST, an integrated system to study how a rapidly changing environment drives the emergence and expansion of deadly pathogens in human populations.
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