Climate change is an environmental and public health threat with implications across the cancer control continuum. Climate change-fueled events increase exposures to cancer risk factors, reduce food access and nutritional quality, impede health behaviors, and disrupt cancer care delivery. Populations disproportionately burdened by cancer are also those at greatest risk of harm from these changes. The impacts of climate change on cancer outcomes are complex, requiring multilevel interventions.
Scientific Priorities
Expand and enhance research to understand and mitigate the effects of environmental risk factors and disruptions to care resulting from climate change.
Strategies
- Develop novel measures to enable more precise, accurate measurement and novel methods to model exposures and risks of climate change and to test intervention strategies.
- Support research on the effects of climate change events on cancer risk, care, and survivors and lifetime exposure research to study the cumulative effects of single or multiple exposures.
- Identify research infrastructure needs and data resources and linkages that will allow rapid development and support testing of sustainable and climate-responsive interventions.
- Develop and implement routine surveillance of the impact of climate-related events on cancer-related exposures, health behaviors, healthcare delivery, and cancer outcomes.
- Identify cumulative exposures in environmental justice communities and best practices to reduce these exposures using community-engaged approaches.
- Achieve better collaboration and coordination within DCCPS, across NCI and NIH, and with other federal partners on climate change activities.
Climate Change and Health Funding Opportunities
- Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Climate Change and Health
Expiration date: May 08, 2025 - Impacts of Climate Change Across the Cancer Control Continuum (R01)
Expiration date: May 08, 2026 - Impacts of Climate Change Across the Cancer Control Continuum (R21)
Expiration date: May 08, 2026 - Long-Term Effects of Disasters on Healthcare Systems in Populations with Health Disparities (R01)
Expiration Date: May 08, 2027 - DCCPS Funding Opportunities
- NIEHS Funding Opportunities
Events
- Patient and Caregiver Experiences Navigating Cancer during Emergencies – January 24, 2024
- Global Perspectives on Cancer Care Teaming and Resilience during Natural and Public Health Emergencies – October 10, 2023
- Research Examining Disaster Impact and Resilience in Cancer Care Delivery – June 30, 2023
- Teaming, Coordination Challenges, and Approaches to Cancer Care during Disasters and Public Health Emergencies – May 4, 2023
- Addressing Health Disparities and Reducing Mortality due to Non-communicable Diseases During Climate-induced Disasters – February 2023
- Climate Change and Cancer: Opportunities for Implementation Science in Cancer Prevention and Control – April 2022
- Climate Change, Cancer, & Health: A Multilevel Examination of Sustainable Health Behavior Change – December 2021
Related Links
- HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity
- NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative
- NIEHS Climate Change and Human Health Program
- NIEHS Disaster Research Response (DR2) Program
- NIEHS Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal
- U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
- Interagency Crosscutting Group on Climate Change and Human Health (CCHHG)
- Fogarty International Center Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network
Last Updated
December 12, 2024