Funding Opportunity: UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility announces 2022-2023 RFA

The UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) is excited to release the 2022-2023 Pilot Projects Program Request for Applications featuring a 3-page proposal.

CEHS pilot projects are an excellent mechanism to generate data and findings that can strengthen existing/larger environmental health projects seeking external funding.

Applications due November 5. Letter of intent is not required to apply.

The theme of CEHS 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.

The CEHS Pilot Projects Program accepts 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

Investigators that propose a Community Engagement component to a single investigator or team science award can receive a supplement of up to $10,000.

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, visit sph.unc.edu/cehs/pilot-projects.

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