Hunter
11/14/23
A recent grant to the University of Iowa’s College of Public Health will be used to fund a new research center and how to adjust to the effects of climate change across the Midwest.
The Daily Iowan reports the grant was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and will be a five-year-long project. The project will focus on working with female landowners and tribal communities in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri.
Brandi Janssen is a clinical associate professor of environmental and occupational health. She is the lead on the project, and says the center will examine the effects of climate change and what the university can do to develop tools that address these issues.
Among the goals the center will work on are how to develop resilience to floods, drought, and excessive heat. The Women, Food, and Agriculture Network is one of the woman-owned farmland organizations that the university will partner with.
