The virtual Center for Aging, Climate, and Health aims to facilitate research and foster collaborations among a wide-range of researchers working at the nexus of aging, health and climate change through targeted interdisciplinary training, information sharing, and investments in research support. Through these objectives, CACHE improves understanding of the public health consequences of environmental conditions and change of the 21st century.
What’s new
2025 Call for Seed Grants
CACHE is pleased to announce seed funding for projects integrating social and environmental data to examine the intersections of aging, climate, and health. Deadline to apply: June 20, 2025
Climate Primer: Components of Climate Risk from a Climate Science Perspective
June 5, 2025 | 12:00PM EST/11:00AM CST/10:00AM MST/9:00AM PST
Training Materials Available for PAA Workshop “Disaster Data for Demographic Research”
Workshop Agenda, Presentation links and Participant Training Materials now available for pre-PAA workshop on integrating SHELDUS data with American Community Survey Data.
Impact of Extreme Weather on Hard-to-Capture, Vulnerable Populations: Evidence from Hart Island — New York’s Public Burial Ground
Frank W. Heiland, Deborah Balk, Selen Ozdogan, Jennifer Brite, Peter Marcotullio and Christian Braneon
We examine the association between weather extremes and persons buried in the nation’s largest indigent burial ground—Hart Island, New York, where more than one million unclaimed individuals are interred…
How do Extreme Environmental Events Impact Cognitive Health among Older Adults?
Drs. Jessica Finlay, Yue Sun, and Michael Esposito
This project examines how extreme environmental events are associated with cognitive health among older Americans…
