Gates Foundation: Accelerating Catalyzing Solutions for Climate Change's Impact on Health, Agriculture, and Gender

Seeks research and pilot/feasibility projects utilizing transdisciplinary approaches to better adapt to, mitigate, or reverse the combined, deleterious effects of climate change on health, women's lives, and agriculture in the geographies of interest. These innovations include early warning and disease surveillance systems to respond to climate-event-driven surges in malaria and other vector-borne diseases, as well as improved mapping of expanded vector ranges and vector-borne disease transmission.

Topic Areas:

1. Health Outcomes - including systemic and compounding impacts of climate change on health.
2. Nutrition - Undernutrition is a consequence of climate change - and it makes people more susceptible to its effects, particularly extreme heat exposure which poses unique risks for pregnant women, newborns, and infants under 2 years old.
3. Adaptation Strategies for Agriculture and Income Development, with a focus on women's agriculture livelihoods. 
4. Knowledge Management and Data Integration of Climate and Health Databases - Many vector-borne diseases may increase in localities that were not prepared for them before the advent of climate change. We seek solutions that integrate data from climate scientists, disease modelers, and government health officials to help address the rise of specific diseases.
5. Effective Response and Resilient Supply Chains for Crisis Management – Maintaining routine health delivery or non-routine campaigns such as humanitarian aid and vaccination efforts will be an increasingly multifaceted problem as the need for rapid, directed humanitarian aid increases in the face of extreme climate events.

Funding: up to $200,000.00, for up to two years. The geography of interest is outlined within the topic/sub-topic areas listed above. This means that the effort needs to be led by investigators in the specified geographies above. Global collaborators may be included, but at least 80% of the funding must go to an organization within the specified geographies.

https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/accelerating-catalyzing-solutions-climate-changes-impact-health-agriculture-and-gender