# Pediatric Health and Extreme Weather - Health Effects of Ambient Temperature (PHEW-HEAT)

> **NIH NIH R01** · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · 2022 · $536,611

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
While a growing but still small number of studies corroborate that heat is associated with pediatric health
impacts, this area of heat and child health remains critically understudied, thereby limiting public health
prevention and clinical approaches focused on heat health risk reduction for children. Drawing on our
preliminary work, we hypothesize that children vulnerability to the health effects of heat varies by age in ways
that have important public health messaging consequences and that the greatest health impact to children from
heat is among non-heat specific diagnoses and that outcomes such as injury and other diagnoses represent an
important gap in existing research that is potentially missing the bulk of heat-associated health burden for
children. We propose an investigation that uses an administrative dataset that is large enough to permit
examination by smaller age categories and diagnostic subgroups to identify medically-fragile children and
specific outcomes that will shed light on underlying etiology of the observed heat-health associations. Further,
we employ a unique previously-compiled dataset of city-wide susceptibility indicators to understand community-
level vulnerability to heat by chronic stressors.
Aim 1: Develop and compare fine-grained, spatially and temporally-resolved calculations of heat across
New York City (NYC).
Aim 2: Determine which pediatric subpopulations in NYC are most susceptible to high ambient
temperatures.
Aim 3: Expand the pediatric health and heat analysis to the state level to understand the spectrum of risk
across a gradient of urbanicity.
Aim 4: Apply the child-health and heat association study findings to inform public health heat alert
programs, state-specific heat vulnerability indices, and clinician awareness in NYS.
Results of this research will be disseminated as part of the training and outreach series proposed in aim 4.
Further, this research will help build infrastructure for assessing heat-risk reduction interventions.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10401370
- **Project number:** 5R01ES030717-04
- **Recipient organization:** ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
- **Principal Investigator:** Jane Ellen Clougherty
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $536,611
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-08-01 → 2024-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10401370

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10401370, Pediatric Health and Extreme Weather - Health Effects of Ambient Temperature (PHEW-HEAT) (5R01ES030717-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10401370. Licensed CC0.

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