Cook Center Researchers Awarded Grant for Investigation of Heat-Based Racial Disparities

Dr. Melissa J. Scott and Dr. Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, both of the Cook Center, have recently been awarded a pilot grant from the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) and the Nicholas School of the Environment (NSOE) for their proposed investigation into the racialized effects of climate change. The funding, awarded to the chosen projects that promise to “stimulate interdisciplinary research in global environmental health,” will help jumpstart the researchers’ plan to study whether national trends of neighborhood temperature disparities are similarly prevalent in Durham, North Carolina–and if they lead to racial disparities in heat-related illnesses and deaths.

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