CHAIRS-C: Climate, Health, and Aging Innovation and Research Solutions for Communities

The Administrative Core of CHAIRS-C will be responsible for synthesizing findings from the Research, Community Engagement, and Capacity Building Cores into actionable solutions to mitigate the health threats for older adults in the face of climate change, particularly increasing heat and pollution effects. This Core will

serve as the central organizing Core of CHAIRS-C, ensuring the oversight, coordination, and integration of activities across the other cores, and establishing and maintaining effective collaborations within Brown University and with external community partners. The leadership of the Administrative Core will provide

oversight of grant finances and annual reporting requirements; participate in the Research Coordinating Center activities; solicit and mentor new grant applications designed to expand and sustain the Center’s research on climate change and aging; advance an effective data infrastructure for partners; evaluate the productivity of

cores and their success in achieving diversity and inclusion goals; and serve in other administrative roles that arise over the course of the P20. To achieve these long-term objectives, the Administrative Core has identified the following specific aims: 1) Integrating the goals and outcomes from the CHAIRS-C Cores to advance

science on the adverse health implications of climate events and develop actionable solutions to promote healthy aging; 2) Accelerating the science of climate change and healthy aging with guidance from transdisciplinary leaders in the community, on campus, and from national experts; 3) Establishing a biomedical

and environmental data infrastructure that will support partnerships with communities, researchers, and policy makers; and 4) Fostering sustainability through new research grants, including a future Center of Excellence.