The Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (SCEHSC) and the Southern California Children’s Environmental Health Research Translation Center is pleased to announce this funding opportunity supporting one-year research projects that aim to promote the understanding, prevention, mitigation, or research translation of the health impacts due to environmental exposures. The goal of the program is to provide investigators with an opportunity to collect preliminary data and/or validate the utility of specific methods or techniques to establish the feasibility of larger-scale research projects and ultimately seek external (especially NIH) funding. Other research criteria being equal, special considerations will be given to early-stage investigators.

A focus on priority areas is encouraged but not required. Priority areas are:

The environmental and health impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and related digital infrastructure, including data centers (e.g., energy consumption, emissions, water use, and thermal pollution)

Children’s environmental health, including research translation

Climate and Health