Funding

Funding from Wellcome Trust is supporting Anne, Soujanya, and close collaborator Dr. Dalmas Omia (University of Nairobi) as we work to make community experiences of climate change and health visible to decision-makers; to connect stakeholders across levels, from communities to the Kenyan national government; and to accelerate initiatives with buy-in from across levels and areas of the country, including a climate and health early warning system. The Wellcome grant also funded collection of real-time data on heat and humidity, movement, and mental and physical health across herders with different livelihoods in Northern Kenya. The CHARMES project is a collaboration between many entities, including Washington State University (lead), the Kenya Medical Research Institute, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (TPH), and more.

Funding from NICHD (#P2CHD041025) to Penn State Population Research Institute is supporting Anne, Soujanya, and Courtney in exploring and expanding collaborations with health and demographic surveillance systems in South Africa and Kenya. This project focuses on mobility, informal social support, and health and livelihood outcomes, especially in Bushbuckridge, South Africa. This work is part of growing collaborations with the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and with Washington State University and the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kenya).

This grant was awarded to joint PIs Kris Smith (lab co-director) and John Gachochi, in collaboration with CREID East and Central Africa. The CREID Pilot Grant is meant for first-time PIs and includes built-in mentorship, with Anne and frequent lab collaborator M. Kariuki Njenga as mentors. Climate change impacts infectious disease dynamics with implications for acute and chronic disease. This project is designed to identify existing cultural adaptations to Rift Valley Fever in two areas of Kenya, and to cross-pollinate these ideas between areas in an effort to share what works.

The Commercialization Gap Fund funds ongoing development of tech for the ClimTo venture, led by PI Anne Pisor, which helps people prepare for environmental impacts before they happen. CGF funds are devoted to building a working prototype of the ClimTo app.

This seed grant has provided initial funding for the development of tech for the ClimTo venture, led by PI Anne Pisor, which helps people prepare for environmental impacts before they happen. Seed grant funds are devoted to user interface development, user experience research, and development of our minimum viable product.

Support from SESYNC enabled Anne and collaborator James Holland Jones to convene experts on climate adaptation and climate-adaptation-adjacent research from across disciplines. Products included our 2022 Nature Climate Change paper and our 2023 special issue in Philosophical Transactions in the Royal Society, as well as spinoff collaborations involving workshop participants.

This grant jumpstarted the Tanzania Sociality and Fisheries Project and funded postdoc Dr Kris Smith. The original summary from NSF’s archives is here and our successful application is here.