# Environmental Health in a Changing Climate:  the 19th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health

> **NIH NIH U13** · LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE · 2021 · $20,000

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health (PBC) will partner with SRP Investigators to develop
a series of meetings on topical themes. An alternating schedule of one day focus meetings on “hot topics” and full
International Conferences is planned running from 2021 to 2026. This application will be limited to the first
three years, but the full plan is outlined for context.
• 2021 Focus meeting, Brisbane, Australia, Environmental impacts on infectious disease.
• 2022 Conference, Jeju Island South Korea, Environmental exposures in a changing climate.
• 2023 Focus meeting, Louisiana State University, USA, Pandemic planning – lessons from COVID-19.
• 2024 Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Theme TBA.
• 2025 Focus meeting, CRI Bangkok, Thailand, Theme TBA.
• 2026 Conference, NIAID Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Theme TBA.
Focus meetings will be held within Universities (or similar) over one day, with “virtual” attendance and
participation facilitated. Full conferences will be held over 3 ½ days and include training workshops, plenary
sessions, symposia, poster presentation sessions, and a dedicated unopposed session for student oral
presentations.
The Focus meetings and Conference themes align with the NIEHS SRP mission and NIEHS Strategic Goals 2018-
2023, “advancing environmental health sciences”, “promoting translation of scientific knowledge to action”, and
“enhancing environmental health sciences through stewardship and support”. The PBC has a long history of
working with regional Universities and Professional Societies to maximize participation of local students, junior
faculty and trainees in line with SRP goals. All PBC Conferences have similar objectives: promotion of human
and environmental health through education and practice in toxicology, engineering and sanitation, and a focus
on priority environmental health issues in the host country. Each conferences has been attended by 250-300
participants with 60% or more coming from the Asia-Pacific region.
We request $295,000 from NIEHS to (i) facilitate conference organization (ii) incentivize the participation of
students, early career researchers and young professionals, with particular focus on female and
underrepresented minority participation, through travel grants and registration waivers, and (iii) facilitate
attendance of local students through accommodation and registration support. The meeting program costs over
the three years is estimated at $700,000. Additional support will come from the PBC, host institutions, local
societies and Governments, and other NIH Institutions.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10307011
- **Project number:** 1U13ES033440-01
- **Recipient organization:** LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE
- **Principal Investigator:** Stephania A Cormier
- **Activity code:** U13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $20,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-09-14 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10307011

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10307011, Environmental Health in a Changing Climate:  the 19th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health (1U13ES033440-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10307011. Licensed CC0.

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