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NOAA Climate Program Office
NOAA Research
Department of Commerce
Phone: 301-427-2089
Fax: 301-427-2073

Last Updated
November 4, 2005

Climate Variability and Human Health Program (CVHH)

The Climate Variability and Human Health Program (CVHH) is designed to take a problem-oriented approach to the use of climate and environmental information for social benefit. The goal of the program is to provide scientifically sound, socially relevant and technically useable climate and environmental information for the public health community.

The CVHH program is comprised of four main components: Research, Application, Capacity Building and Training, and Community Building. Driven by the need to develop a solid scientific understanding of the influence of climate and environmental factors on public health, the Program supports and manages the Joint Announcement on Climate Variability and Human Health. This research grant announcement, was supported at various times by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and EPRI (formerly known as the Electric Power Research Institute). In collaboration with other agencies, academia, international institutions, and regional partners, the CVHH program supports training and other activities that build capacity to use climate information for public health purposes. The program also focuses on building a robust climate and health community, helping to bring together various communities and disciplines to foster an iterative definition of the problem and collective development of approaches and solutions.

Current Projects

PI(s): Laura C. Harrington, Co-PI(s): Renee R. Anderson, Arthur T. DeGaetano, Lois Levitan
Title: West Nile Vector Development and Transmission Risk

PI(s): Patrick L. Kinney, Co-PI(s): Christian Hogrefe, Cynthia Rosenzweig
Title: Climate Variability, Air Quality and Human Health: Measuring Regional Vulnerability for Decision-making

PI(s): Erin K. Lipp, Co-PI(s): Dana Cole, Nancy Schmidt, Susan Lance-Parker
Title: Using Climate and Weather Variability to model Human Outbreaks of Salmonella and Campylobacter and their Environmental Prevalence in Georgia Watersheds (2003, Research Grant)