Brown Bag Lunch and Learns is a monthly event in which Center affiliate faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to share their in-progress work to get feedback from others working at the intersection of climate and health.

This month,  EEH PhD students, Niklas Hayden, MSc and Tahmidul Haque, MBBS, MPH will be sharing their work. Hayden will focus on assessing the impact of sustained malaria control in the Brazilian  and Peruvian Amazon using a retrospective, observational, spatially-varying  interrupted time series analysis. Haque will be presenting “Seasonal Relationship Between Climate Condition and Infant Enteric Infections in Kenya: Insights from Safe Start Study.”

The Center for Climate Change and Health Equity hosts a quarterly Aims/Summary review meeting where researchers intending to apply for NIH (or other) funding can present their one-page Aims or Summary ideas for a study to peers and receive early-stage constructive community feedback to help them improve the rigor and competitiveness of the full proposal for external review. Our overarching goal is to increase the number of high-quality proposals from UB on climate and health topics, per our mission at UB, but we also will accept and review all requests.

Attendees are asked to evaluate each concept holistically - from the science to the presentation style - including whether a concept’s goals have been expressed and justified clearly, seems aligned with funder mission, hypotheses are testable, concept is innovative, Aims written as aims, feasible, etc. While the Aims author is the direct recipient, typically everyone picks up some new idea or tool for good writing from their peers.

If you are interested in submitting specific aims for review to one of the below dates, scheduling an ad hoc review, or just attending a meeting, please contact Center Administrator Stephanie Keating Miller at keatingm@buffalo.edu.