National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Centers for Oceans and Human Health
Page 2The COHH program intends to grant 3-4 awards with an estimated total budget of $4.2 million for the fiscal year 2012.
Interested applicants are asked to submit their applications electronically to the Grants.gov website. Deadline of submissions will be on November 22, 2011.
Institutions or organizations will be eligible to apply as long as they are any of the following:
a) Higher Education Institutions, either public/state controlled or private
b) Profit and Nonprofit organizations such as small businesses
c) local governments with the US and its territories and possessions
d) independent school districts
e) Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
f) Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
g) Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
h) Regional Organizations
The COHH program is also driven by the NIEHS's desire to explore the effects of human exposure to environmental agents, thereby hoping that these studies will lead to:
a) the identification of agents that could be hazardous and contain the risk of giving humans diseases, disorders and defects;
b) the establishment of effective disease prevention strategies
c) the improvement of human health effects due to environmental agents
d) the development of products and technologies geared towards the better understanding of the effects of harmful environmental agents
e) and lastly, the successful education and training of research scientists in all areas of environmental health research.
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