This workshop builds on previous investments by IRAP and NOAA in the Caribbean, and provides linkages to ongoing efforts in NOAA and the USGCRP to address climate and health, including heat health.

NOAA is engaged in a partnership with NSF, NIH, USDA and agencies from 8 other countries to reduce risk in the public health sector through the use of climate-related knowledge and information tools and services; this allows us to leverage millions of dollars of investment from other countries in high priority topics to the US.

In order to inform planning and prevention focused on weather and climate-sensitive health risks to U.S. economic, development, scientific and safety interests at home and abroad, NOA’s International Research and Applications Project (IRAP) selected six new two-year projects following a highly competitive funding competition, totaling $1.5 million.

NOAA CPO, through the International Research and Applications Project (IRAP), will join the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other agencies to make research funding available to advance the use of climate information and services in the reduction of climate-sensitive health risks.

From years of competitions, the COCA and SARP program managers have compiled a list of frequently asked questions along with responses that should help applicants in preparing their proposals. Check back periodically to see if additional questions an answers have been added to the document.