Jobs and Funding Opportunities — June 16, 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
- The Epidemiology Branch within the Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is recruiting a tenure-track investigator to develop an independent research program on environment and chronic diseases of aging.
- The World Health Organization seeks a consultant on climate, health, economics, and epidemiology to support the advancement of climate-health economic methods and evidence. Apply by June 15.
- The University of Washington Center for Health and the Global Environment seeks a postdoctoral fellow to support the Adaptation work group of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and develop metrics related to climate and health adaptation in the U.S.
- The Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health invites applications for 1-3 non-tenure-track faculty positions and 1-3 tenure track faculty positions in research areas including climate and health science.
Funding Opportunities
NIH’s Health and Extreme Weather (HEW) initiative is pleased to announce three new funding opportunities related to training and education. All three are R25 “education program” announcements. Under NIH’s new preferred funding structure, the HEW initiative and its participating Institutes, Centers, and Offices may consider R25 applications that fall within the scope of the HEW Highlighted Topic published in May. That Highlighted Topic states:
“Methods to advance the aggregation, linking, accessibility, and interpretation of health and weather-related data are also of interest, as are efforts to provide training and build the capacity of researchers across the disciplines needed to address the health impacts of extreme weather. Community engagement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and research translation are encouraged in health and extreme weather research applications.”
The three R25 funding opportunities are listed below. Please reach out to the Scientific Contact on the Highlighted Topic if you are interested in applying and any have questions.
- NIH Research Education Program - Research Experiences (Parent R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PA-27-036
- NIH Research Educational Program - Mentoring Activities & Networks (Parent R25/UE5 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PA-27-035
- NIH Research Education Program - Courses, Curriculum and Methods (Parent R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PA-27-034
Purpose of these announcements: “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Education Program supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of the Research Education program is to: Support educational activities that complement and/or enhance training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs; Help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences; and Foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications.”
In case you missed it, here is the June 3 roundup of job openings and funding opportunities.
If you have an opportunity you’d like to share with the CAFE community, please send it to cafecomms@hsph.harvard.edu.
