The press release announces 12 winners in the first phase of the $1 million Environmental Justice Community Innovator Challenge.
Challenge aims to uplift community-level solutions to address health inequities and environmental justice
For years, studies have demonstrated that racial and ethnic minority, disadvantaged, vulnerable, low-income, marginalized, and Indigenous populations are disproportionately burdened by environmental and climate change-related hazards. These populations are more likely to be exposed than other groups to unhealthy land uses, poor air and water quality, dilapidated housing, lead exposure, and other environmental threats that drive health disparities.
This challenge aims to develop community-driven strategies and application of data-driven tools to advance health equity and address environmental hazards, including those related to climate change, and the cumulative impacts of environmental and other stressors. In Phase 1 of the challenge, solvers designed innovative concepts and ideas that would enhance their community-driven efforts to mitigate environmental health disparities and advance environmental health equity within a specific population and developed an effective approach to support innovative concepts already being developed.
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