# Environmental Change and Undernutrition among Women and Children

> **NIH NIH R03** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2020 · $92,715

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
This project will investigate how climate change affects the nutritional status of women and children in low- and
middle-income countries. We will link data on the nutritional status of 1.7 million women and 850 thousand
children from 50 countries to high-resolution climate anomalies measured during critical developmental periods
of exposure. We will then use these data to measure climatic effects on underweight and stunting while
accounting for socio-demographic characteristics as well as potential spatial and temporal confounders.
Subsequently we will extend this analysis to examine the heterogeneity of climate effects across potential
social and contextual axes of vulnerability. These analyses will be buttressed by a series of robustness checks
that account for nonlinearity, age misreporting, selective mortality and measurement error in climate. This
research will represent the first rigorous global analysis of the consequences of climate change for the
nutritional status of vulnerable populations, and will directly feed into the ongoing global conversation about
how best to mitigate the costs of climate change.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9957466
- **Project number:** 1R03HD101859-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **Principal Investigator:** CLARK GRAY
- **Activity code:** R03 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $92,715
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-04-02 → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9957466

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9957466, Environmental Change and Undernutrition among Women and Children (1R03HD101859-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9957466. Licensed CC0.

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