Climate and Health Award: Advancing climate mitigation solutions with health co-benefits in low- and middle-income countries

Research proposals must include:

• Interventions – possible, planned or implemented climate change mitigation interventions. Climate change mitigation interventions must reduce sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and/or protect sinks that sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Interventions can be actions, policies, initiatives or similar. They do not have to be officially labelled as ‘climate change mitigation interventions’, so long as they meet the above definition. 
• Outcomes – Interventions should be assessed on:
  • Climate outcomes: through appropriate methods to quantitatively estimate current and/or future changes in GHG emissions or absorption (for example, IPCC guidance or GHG Protocol), including carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4), or short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon (BC).
  • Health outcomes: through quantitative measurements or estimates of health impacts (for example, all-cause or cause-specific mortality, years of life lost, DALYS, morbidity from communicable diseases, for example vector-borne diseases, or non-communicable diseases for example, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, birthweight, cognitive and lung development in children, and mental health). Studies that model or measure changes in exposures that are known to have strong links to health outcomes (for example, environmental risk factors included in the Global Burden of Disease Assessment) are eligible. However, we will prioritise those that estimate changes in health outcomes.
  • Wider social and/or economic outcomes: through measured or estimated changes to the well-established social determinants of health (for example, housing, income or working conditions), social impacts of local priority (for example, gendered impacts or energy access), economic impacts of health outcomes (for example, Value of Statistical Life), economic impacts of the intervention itself (for example, cost, return on investment or jobs). 
• Adaptation – Any maladaptation implications of the intervention. We encourage proposals to also look at win-win mitigation-adaptation scenarios.
• Transdisciplinary knowledge generation – Relevant non-academic stakeholders within the research team or a detailed plan for how to develop partnerships with relevant non-academic stakeholders within the first year of the grant. We are asking for a transdisciplinary approach to help ensure research relevance and impact.
• Need – A clear evidence gap and a clear demand or need for the proposed research from key stakeholders (for example, policymakers, NGOs, advocates, affected communities or industry) – responding to locally led priorities and challenges. The proposal must have a high-level theory of change, outlining the pathway from research to impact.
• Equitable partnerships – Evidence of equitable partnership principles in practice. The UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) has lots of resources on this topic, a good starting place is ‘Four Approaches to Supporting Equitable Partnerships’.