Jobs and Funding Opportunities — July 14, 2026

In this ongoing series, we spotlight current job openings and funding calls in health and extreme weather research, plus related areas. Twice a month, we’ll round up timely positions, grants, and fellowships to help you find the right next step for your work.

Job Opportunities

• University of California, Berkley seeks an executive director and chief development officer to serve in the Office of the Associate Provost for Energy, Climate, and the Environment.
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• University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health seeks a tenure-tenure stream assistant to professor in Environmental/Occupational Health.
  
  
• The Boston University School of Public Health Center for Climate and Health seeks a research scientist to support interdisciplinary research on the health impacts of extreme weather, with embedded roles in major NIH-funded initiatives including the CAFE Research Coordinating Center and the Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center.
  
  
• The Boston University School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health invites applications for assistant professor and higher.
  
  
• Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative seeks a project director to lead the program and provide oversight and strategic guidance to all aspects of the Arctic Initiative project.

If you have an opportunity you’d like to share with the CAFE community, please send it to cafecomms@hsph.harvard.edu.

NIH Funding Opportunities

The NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program has released four funding opportunities for the FY27 NIH Director’s Awards:

1. NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2 - Clinical Trial Optional):  RFA-RM-27-002
   Supports early-stage investigators who propose bold and highly innovative research ideas with the potential for broad impact. Learn more. Questions? NewInnovatorAwards@mail.nih.gov. Deadline: August 17.
   
   
2. NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional): RFA RM-27-003  
   Supports individuals or teams proposing remarkably innovative and/or unconventional research projects with the potential to create or overturn fundamental paradigms. Learn more. Questions? Transformative_Awards@mail.nih.gov. Deadline: September 3.
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3. NIH Director's Pioneer Award (DP1 - Clinical Trial Optional): RFA-RM-27-001  
   Supports individual scientists at any career stage with outstanding records of creativity who propose pioneering approaches to address major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.  Learn more. Questions? PioneerAwards@mail.nih.gov. Deadline: September 9.
   
   
4. NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5 - Clinical Trial Optional): RFA RM-27-004
   Enables rigorous and promising early career investigators to bypass the traditional postdoctoral training period and launch an independent research career. Learn more. Questions?  EarlyIndependence@od.nih.gov.  Deadline: September 10. 

Institutional Career Development Awards (K12)

NIEHS is a participating institute with an interest in "proposals that provide new pediatric healthcare providers, obstetricians and gynecologists, and other healthcare professionals with environmental health training that blends research, research translation, and practice-based applications to prepare them as independent researchers and recognized leaders." Read the parent announcement and find details about the interests of each participating institute/center. 

Funding Forecasts

NIEHS intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity to solicit applications in the areas below. Estimated post date: November 27, 2026. Estimated application due date: January 29, 2027.

Health and Extreme Weather (HEW) Research Coordination and Data Center (U2C - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Will solicit applications for research coordination and data support for the Health and Extreme Weather (HEW) initiative including two closely aligned components: research coordination and data support. The coordinating component will facilitate engagement across the initiative’s grantees and the larger HEW community of practice. The data component will develop resources and infrastructure to facilitate access to and use of health and environmental data. Learn more

NIH: Health and Extreme Weather Solutions-Focused Research Hubs (U54 - Clinical Trial Optional)
Will solicit applications that propose translational research hubs with multiple highly integrated components focused on research, capacity building, and community/public health translation for regionally relevant topics related to the health impacts of extreme weather and cumulative exposures, including but not limited to wildfire smoke, extreme heat, flooding, hurricanes, drought, and other climate-related hazards affecting populations at heightened risk across the lifespan. Learn more.