NIEHS Environmental Justice Grants

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANTS
FROM NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE

DEADLINE: FULL PROPOSALS ARE DUE OCTOBER 27, 1998

Full proposals are due October 27, 1998 for grants under the
Environmental Justice Partnerships for Communication Program of the
National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS).  This
program seeks methods for linking members of a community who are
directly affected by adverse environmental conditions with researchers
and health care providers.  Together, this partnership will develop
appropriate research strategies that address environmental health
problems of concern.

Potential activities include but are not limited to the following: 
1) development of efficacious methods for risk communication in low-income
and underserved communities unfavorably impacted by environmental
hazards; 

2) development of community-based, culturally sensitive
educational programs to mitigate adverse health effects from
environmental toxicants in low-income communities; 

3) community-based training to increase environmental health literacy in such
neighborhoods; 

4) training and educating neighborhood health care professionals in the 
diagnosis and treatment of disorders having anetiology related to 
exposure to hazardous substances; and 

5) development of a research agenda to measure population exposure or to 
quantify human health impacts.

Five grants of up to $200,000 per year and extending up to four years
are expected to be available.

CONTACT: Allen Dearry, Division of Extramural Research and Training
  NIEHS, MD
  EC-21
  PO BOX 12233
  Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
  919-541-4500
  919-541-4937 FAX
  E-mail: dearry@niehs.nih.gov
  Reference: RFA ES-98-006