Funding
Pilot Project Program
Community-engaged environmental health research awards, led by Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD.
All application types up to $40,000
Goals
Through the Pilot Project Program we support the next generation of environmental health scientists and further our mission of addressing community-identified environmental health issues using scientific strategies that uplift and engage communities in the Maryland region.
The Center commits to funding and advising projects — chosen through a competitive application process — that:
- Authentically nurture co-creation of knowledge in community partnerships;
- Drive forward innovative environmental health research;
- Translate scientific findings into action to address community-identified challenges and concerns.
Through a rapid-response process with a 48-hour turnaround, funds can also be deployed quickly to address more emergent needs of community–investigator teams.
Application types
Three award tracks, all up to $40,000.
Community Partnership Awards
Proposals must demonstrate a community-engaged research partnership between one or more faculty and one or more community organizations; specify how the outputs and outcomes will support responsive, science-based environmental health solutions to community-identified needs; and/or build the capacity of faculty, students, and community partners to conduct and participate in multi-directional, responsive research. Open to JHU and other Maryland-region university faculty working with community partners on projects designed and conducted with the active participation of those partners.
New Directions Grants
To incentivize new perspectives and progress in environmental health, we fund high-impact, innovative projects around the Center's central scientific themes and seek to attract talented investigators from other fields into environmental health. Investigator-initiated proposals should result in new technologies, new scientific directions, or new collaborative teams, with the goal of submitting multi-investigator grant proposals.
Career Development Awards
To promote and support the next generation of environmental scientists focused on community-engaged research, we fund early-stage investigators. Junior faculty who have not received federal funding for their research and are committed to a career in community-engaged environmental health research may apply. Recipients are eligible for career mentoring through the Center leadership.
Previously funded
Funded pilot projects
The Center has funded pilot projects in the 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 cycles. Project summaries are available from the Center on request while this archive is being rebuilt.
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