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Welcome to EPA’s Aging Initiative Website. The website provides a wealth of information about the Agency’s efforts to protect the environmental health of older persons.

The United States is a rapidly aging nation. By 2030, the number of older persons is expected to double to more than 70 million. Click here to read more.

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Aging Initiative

Help Us to Shape the Future:
A National Agenda for the Environment and the Aging

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Selected EPA Opportunities

2010 Academic Year EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study.
Deadline: December 10, 2009 Read more...

Environmental Education Grants
Deadline: December 15, 2009 Read more...

7th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet.
Deadline: January 4, 2010 Read more...

Environmental Justice Small Grants Program -- Impact of Climate Changeon EJ Communities.
Deadline: January 8, 2010 Read more...

Other Funding Opportunities

HUD FY09 Notice of Funding Availability: Healthy Homes Demonstration Program
Deadline: November 24, 2009. Read more...

CDC American Recovery Reinvestment Act of 2009 Communities Putting Prevention to Work
Deadline: December 01, 2009 Read more...

Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) Brookdale Foundation Group
Deadline: December 03, 2009 Read more...

The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). NIH Institutes and Centers
Deadline: December 11, 2009 Read more...

Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research
Deadline: December 11, 2009 Read more...

NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13/U13)
Deadlines: December 12, 2009, April 12, 2010. Read more...

US Forest Service - 2009 Urban Forestry Challenge Cost Share Grant Program Request for Proposals
Deadline: December 15, 2009 Read more...

Mechanisms, Measurement, and Management Of Pain In Aging: From Molecular To Clinical (R01)
Deadline: January 25, 2010. Read more...

Development And Validation Of Disease Biomarkers (R01)
Deadline: January 25, 2010. Read more...

Development and Characterization of Animal Models for Aging Research (R01)
Deadlines: February 5, 2010. Read more...

Geographic and Contextual Influences on Energy Balance-Related Health Behaviors.
Closing Date: February 5, June 5, 2010. Read more...

Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Grants (P30).
Closing Date: March 31, 2010. Read more...

Thyroid in Aging R21. Deadline: January 7, 2011. Read more...

NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Pilot Clinical Trials.
Closing Date: January 8, 2011. Read more...

Functional Links between the Immune System, Brain Function and Behavior (R21). Closing: May 16, 2011. Read more...

Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity (R36). Deadline: January 7, 2011 Read more...

Mechanisms of Functional Recovery After Stroke (R01). Opening May 5, 2008 Closing: May 7, 2011. Read more...

Transdisciplinary Research on Fatigue and Fatigability in Aging (R01). Deadline: May 7, 2011 Read more...

Using Systems Science Methodologies to Protect and Improve Population Health (R21). Deadline: September 7, 2011 Read more...

Translational Research at the Aging/Cancer Interface (TRACI) (R01). Deadline: September 7, 2011 Read more...

The National Institutes for Health announces a series of grants related to HIV/AIDS in older adults.
Read more about PA-09-017 Closing Date: 01/07/2012
Read more about PA-09-018 Closing Date: 01/07/2012
Read more about PA-09-019

Promoting Careers in Aging and Health Disparities Research (K01). Deadline: May 07, 2012 Read more...

National Institutes of Health. Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R21)
Link to full announcement.
Letters of Intent Receipt Dates: (new applications) September 16, 2009; May 16, 2010; January 16, 2011; September 16, 2011; May 16, 2012.
Letters of Intent Receipt Dates: ( renewal, resubmission, and revision applications) October 16, 2009; June 16, 2010; February 16, 2011; October 16, 2011; June 16, 2012.
Application Due Dates: (new applications): October 16, 2009; June 16, 2010; February 16, 2011; October 16, 2011; June 16, 2012 (alternating standard R21 receipt dates).
Application Due Dates: (renewal, resubmission, and revision applications): November 16, 2009; July 16, 2010; March 16, 2011; November 16, 2011; July 16, 2012
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Health Impact Project. Open: Letters of Intent. No deadline. Read more...