Building Resilience Against Climate Effects: Implementing and Evaluating Adaptation Strategies that Protect and Promote Human Health

Climate change intensifies existing climate-sensitive health threats and creates new challenges by exposing more people in more places to hazardous weather and climate conditions (National Climate Assessment). Increasing temperatures, frequency and intensity of heat waves, heavy precipitation and flooding affects health in a number of ways. Each region of the United States experiences climate change and its impacts on health differently, due to the regions’ location-specific climate exposures The changing climate also interacts with demographic and social determinants of health to influence...

Applicants are required to submit all of the following items to meet responsiveness requirements of this NOFO: Signed letter from the applicant organization’s director that states their commitment for this program throughout the organization or agency. Name the file Responsiveness-Director and upload it in Grants.gov. Signed letters of commitment from partners who will be directly implementing adaptation actions (Strategy C: Compile Evidence and Best Practices to Develop Adaptation Plans). The letters should include information on the activities that the partners will be contributing to achieve the goals of this NOFO. Combine the letters into one file, name the file Responsiveness-Partnerships and upload it in Grants.gov. Signed letter from the principal investigator documenting implementation of the five areas of the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework: Activities to anticipate climate impacts and assess vulnerabilities; Projected disease burden from climate change; Assessment of public health interventions; Existing climate and health adaptation plan; and Evaluation of climate and health activities. Name the file Responsiveness-BRACE and upload it in Grants.gov. An Evaluation Plan that has been updated within the last 3 years. Name the file Responsiveness-EvalPlan A signed letter from the applicant that documents the jurisdiction’s population (based on US Census data - 2018 estimates or other appropriate document if the Census data is not available). Name the file Responsiveness-Population and upload it in Grants.gov. Applications that include request for funding at a higher award amount for the Core Component, based upon population listed in the table in Funding Strategy section will be considered non-responsive and will receive no further review. If the application is non-responsive to any of the requirements listed in this section, it will not be entered into the review process. The applicant will be notified that the application did not meet submission requirements and will not advance for further review.

Daniel Burrows ZPC3@cdc.gov