UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility releases RFA

The UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) has released the 2021-2022 Pilot Projects Program Request for Applications.

Letters of intent are due December 18, 2020 and applications are due February 12, 2021. View application guidelines (pdf)

The CEHS Pilot Projects Program is accepting applications for two types of projects:

1. single investigator, with awards of up to five grants of up to $25,000 each
2. interdisciplinary team science, with awards of up to two grants of up to $50,000 each.

To add special emphasis on community engagement efforts, all funded pilots will be reviewed for community engagement potential. PIs will be contacted about possible community components by the Community Engagement Core (CEC). Investigators that propose a Community Engagement component to a single investigator or team science award can receive a supplement of up to $10,000. In addition, the CEC and investigators proposing a community engaged or community based participatory research (CBPR) project are eligible to receive pilot project awards.

Any member of the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, and/or a community partner of a UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member, is eligible to apply. Non-members of CEHS must apply for membership prior to initiation of a funded project. PIs must have a faculty appointment (research, clinical or tenure track) or be partnered with the Community Engagement Core faculty lead (Dr. Kathleen Gray). Postdoctoral fellows are eligible to apply for Single Investigator awards if they have a collaborating CEHS center member as a Co-PI.

For more information on programmatic fit and funding priorities for the CEHS, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., CEHS Associate Director.

The theme of the Center is translating interdisciplinary research on environmental health threats to improve public health in North Carolina. CEHS facilitates research collaborations by funding university infrastructure to support scientific equipment, facilities, and other resources that can be shared among environmental health researchers. By pursuing shared research questions, CEHS can identify emerging issues that advance understanding about how pollutants and other environmental exposures affect public health and health inequities.