Demonstration Projects
CACHE’s foundation rests on providing demonstrations of the integration of social and environmental data making use of a wide variety of projects. The projects engage data from myriad sources, both in the social and environmental realms, as well as operating at a variety of spatial scales. The projects form the basis for the development of training materials described below.
Training
While a large amount of long-term climate and disaster data are publicly available, they are in formats unfamiliar to health and social scientists and, thus, require additional technical and substantive expertise to use. CACHE offers the necessary training and resources to overcome these substantial barriers. CACHE uses demonstration projects for the development of training material including webinars providing discussions of available data resources, issues around spatial scale, and the creation of relevant environmental measures (including heat, rainfall measures), as examples.
The Center also organizes yearly mini conferences providing space to share ideas, provide feedback, and identify important questions and collaborative opportunities. As an example, the Center is collaborating with the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging to offer a 1-day workshop prior to the 2024 annual conference of the Population Association of America.
Resources
Financial Support
CACHE provides seed grants to support the early stages of promising interdisciplinary research, while also providing hands-on workshops to grapple with research challenges in this arena.
In all, the Center for Aging, Climate, & Health emphasizes the bridging of data platforms and the crossing of interdisciplinary silos to bring multiple disciplinary perspectives to bear within the increasingly important topical area of Aging, Climate, and Health.
