# Anga Center for Climate Justice, Health Equity, and Community Wellbeing

> **NIH NIH P20** · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · 2024 · $1,061,973

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
 East Africa (EA) is one of the most vulnerable regions of Africa to climate change (CC) and related
extreme weather events (EWEs). Climate change will exacerbate already existing temperature extremes and
changes in precipitation in this region, and these environmental changes are likely to have a profound impact on
health and well-being. Even though countries and communities that contribute the least to CC are often those
most affected, there is limited inclusion of these communities in CC and health research. Residents of climate-
vulnerable communities, in particular, have a profound stake in the global community's understanding of CC and
health and strategies to adapt. In fact, they are key to developing action-oriented solutions that address CC-
related health inequities. The central theme of the Anga Center for Climate Justice, Health Equity, and
Community Well-being in East Africa is to improve climate justice, health equity, and community well-being
by exploring climate-related health and well-being and interventions to strengthen them through building
transdisciplinary research capacity and fostering sustained community engagement and empowerment in
climate vulnerable communities and marginalized populations.
 The Anga Center will be led by a multinational, multistage, transdisciplinary team of researchers with
expertise in social work, climate science, climate adaptation and mitigation, environmental engineering and
science, public health, biostatistics, psychiatry, community development, intervention science, community-based
participatory research, and women and gender studies and a strong history of ethical, community-engaged
research in the EA region. With a commitment to community engagement and empowerment, the Center aims
to support communities with infrastructure, technical skills, knowledge sharing, and career opportunities in CC,
and we will work to cultivate multi-directional information sharing, targeted trainings, capacity building, and key
opportunities for networking with a diverse set of stakeholders. We will achieve our overall goal by: (1) fostering
research that promotes climate justice, health equity, and community well-being through explorations of the
impacts of CC and related events and interventions that minimize negative impacts and improve overall health
and well-being in climate-vulnerable communities and marginalized populations in EA; (2) Building local and
regional CC and health research and science capacity by fostering long-term transdisciplinary and community
partnerships, enhancing local data collection and methodologies, and providing capacity building through
knowledge sharing; and (3) empowering communities most vulnerable to climate change through sustained,
committed, multi- directional relationships, community-engaged research, and efforts to enhance community
well-being. The Center's combined aims of improving health and well-being, building research capacity, and
empowering commun...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10982425
- **Project number:** 1P20TW012808-01
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE
- **Principal Investigator:** DAVID MUSYIMI NDETEI
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $1,061,973
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-09-23 → 2027-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10982425

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10982425, Anga Center for Climate Justice, Health Equity, and Community Wellbeing (1P20TW012808-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10982425. Licensed CC0.

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