Claire M. Hubbard Fellowship

Claire M. Hubbard Water, Climate and Health Fellowship - 2024-2025 Applications

The Water, Climate and Health Program and the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for Claire M. Hubbard Water, Climate and Health Fellowships for 2024-2025 to support Master’s or PhD students researching topics at the nexus of water, climate and health.

Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  1. Link between water quality and cancer or birth defects;
  2. Health outcomes related to flooding or drought;
  3. Building resilience to the impacts of flooding or drought;
  4. Mapping of at-risk populations and environmental exposures.

Application Deadline: January 26, 2024

Starting Date: July 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025

Request for Applications: available here

Applications must be submitted online here: https://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/ems-registration?EMSEventUUID=4df2c406-5204-4c02-ae64-bb1ff0a5ccb0

 For questions about the application process, contact Christine Allmon Vetro at callmon@unmc.edu.


The Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute supports the Claire M. Hubbard Water, Climate and Health Fellowship program. This mechanism provides student support funding for projects that address topics at the nexus of water and health. 

For more information about funding, click here!

2021 Awardees

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Tirthanker Roy, PhD, Assistant Professor, UNL Civil and Environmental Engineering
Student: to be recruited from Fall 2021 Civil Engineering graduate students
 

A comprehensive framework to assess flood risk within the context of public health:
The goal of this research is to develop a comprehensive framework that can assess flood-induced health risk by taking into account hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and response.
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Stephen Thomas, PhD, Associate Professor, UNL School of Natural Resources.
Student: Justin Caniglia, pursuing a Ph.D., SNR
 

Comparing human and veterinary antibiotics in Nebraska streams:
The goal of this research is to produce baseline data that can be used to compare and contrast spatial and temporal variation in veterinary and human antibiotics in select streams of Nebraska.