The Gulf Research Program is charged with focusing on “human health and environmental protection including issues relating to offshore oil drilling and hydrocarbon production and transportation in the Gulf of Mexico and on the United States’ outer continental shelf.”
The Early-Career Research Fellowship program will foster the development of science and engineering approaches and health equity, based on the needs of the Gulf region, by recruiting and supporting the top tier of early-career researchers as they explore new and novel research ideas and approaches that advance the science and understanding in their field.
About the Human Health & Community Resilience Track:
The Early-Career Research Fellowship’s Human Health & Community Resilience Track aligns with one of the Gulf Research Program’s five program areas and narrows the focus of the fellowship to support the most relevant research to the goals and objectives of the Gulf Health and Resilience Board.
For the 2025-2027 Application Cycle, the Human Health & Community Resilience Track Goal focuses on contributing to the understanding of the role that resilience-based interventions* play in addressing the root causes of climate, disaster, and/or health vulnerability that are associated with health disparities** in communities throughout the Gulf of Mexico region.
*Any intervention that aims to 'increase the ability of a community to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, or more successfully adapt to [climate change, disasters, and/or environmental health threats],' (NAS (2012), Disaster Resilience, National Academies Press, https://doi.org/10.17226/13457). Examples of resilience-based interventions include climate adaptation, disaster mitigation, health equity etc.
**The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines health disparities as, “preventable differences in the burden, disease, injury, violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged racial, ethnic, and other population groups and communities.”
2025 Early-Career Research Fellowship: Human Health & Community Resilience Track
The Gulf Research Program is charged with focusing on “human health and environmental protection including issues relating to offshore oil drilling and hydrocarbon production and transportation in the Gulf of Mexico and on the United States’ outer continental shelf.”
The Early-Career Research Fellowship program will foster the development of science and engineering approaches and health equity, based on the needs of the Gulf region, by recruiting and supporting the top tier of early-career researchers as they explore new and novel research ideas and approaches that advance the science and understanding in their field.
About the Human Health & Community Resilience Track:
The Early-Career Research Fellowship’s Human Health & Community Resilience Track aligns with one of the Gulf Research Program’s five program areas and narrows the focus of the fellowship to support the most relevant research to the goals and objectives of the Gulf Health and Resilience Board.
For the 2025-2027 Application Cycle, the Human Health & Community Resilience Track Goal focuses on contributing to the understanding of the role that resilience-based interventions* play in addressing the root causes of climate, disaster, and/or health vulnerability that are associated with health disparities** in communities throughout the Gulf of Mexico region.
*Any intervention that aims to 'increase the ability of a community to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, or more successfully adapt to [climate change, disasters, and/or environmental health threats],' (NAS (2012), Disaster Resilience, National Academies Press, https://doi.org/10.17226/13457). Examples of resilience-based interventions include climate adaptation, disaster mitigation, health equity etc.
**The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines health disparities as, “preventable differences in the burden, disease, injury, violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged racial, ethnic, and other population groups and communities.”