Please join us for the U.S EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) kick off meeting to present the six new grant awards focused on research to develop sustainable solutions to environmental problems that affect tribes. This stems from the 2013 Request for Applications, Science for Sustainable and Healthy Tribes. The projects funded under this solicitation aim to improve understanding of the health impacts of climate change on tribal populations; and the health impacts of indoor air pollution exposures that derive from or are directly affecting traditional tribal life-ways and cultural practice.

The STAR Tribal Environmental Health Research grants are part of EPA’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities (SHC) Research Program.  The SHC Research Program provides useful science and tools for decision makers at all levels to help communities advance sustainability as well as achieve regulatory compliance. SHC is collaborating with partners to conduct research that will result in science-based knowledge to guide decisions at the federal, regional, state and community level that will better sustain a healthy society and environment in America's communities. 

Featured Speakers:

U.S. EPA- Welcome and opening remarks
Grantees

• James Berner - Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska
  • Project Aim: To assess, monitor, and adapt to threats to the sustainability of food and water in remote Alaska native villages
• John Doyle, Anne Camper, and Mari Eggers - Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, Mont.
  • Project Aim: To research climate change adaptation and waterborne disease prevention on the Crow Reservation
• Jamie Donatuto - Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, La Conner, Wash.
  • Project Aim: To examine coastal climate impacts to traditional foods, cultural sites, and tribal community health and well-being
• Richard Peltier - University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Mass.
  • Project Aim: To measure indoor air quality in tents as related to wood smoke exposures and identify potential health risks in remote communities in North America
• Richard Shaughnessy and David Reisdorph - University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla.
  • Project Aim: To improve indoor air quality and reduce environmental asthma triggers in tribal homes and schools
• Suzanne Fluharty - Yurok Tribe, Klamath, Calif.
  • Project Aim: To identify, assess, and adapt to climate change impacts to Yurok water and aquatic resources, food security and tribal health

Other Presentations
TBD - Presentations on U.S. EPA tribal research activities