Health and Extreme Weather Research Briefs
The Natural Hazards Center—with funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation—supports quick response research about the health risks and impacts of extreme weather events—such as wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, floods, extreme heat, tornadoes, and severe storms. Practitioners, policymakers, and the public will find an accessible overview of each funded study's main results and their policy and practice implications in the Health and Extreme Weather Research Briefs below.
HEW6 | Exploring the Mental Health Impact of Hurricane Beryl on Racial Minorities in Houston, Texas (2025)
Oluponmile Olonilua and John Ogbeleakhu Aliu
HEW5 | Nebraska Tornado Quick Response: Assessing Community Impacts and Evaluating Early Warnings (2025)
Sarah Elizabeth Scales, Christine Allmon, Rachael Birn, Summer Woolsey, Siddhi Munde, and Kristina Kintziger
HEW4 | Wildfire Smoke in Northern California: Family Risk Perceptions and Mental Health Impacts (2025)
Kathleen Lynch, Alexis Merdjanoff, and David Abramson
HEW3 | Mental Health Impacts of the 2024 Ohio Tornadoes on People With Socioeconomic Disadvantages (2025)
Amer Hamad Issa Abukhalaf, Vaishnavi Deepak Chavan, and Harshavardhan Kodela
HEW2 | Assessing Health and Environmental Impacts of 2023 Maui Wildfires on Asian Americans (2025)
Shinwoo Choi and Yong Je Kim
HEW1 | Transportation as a Social Determinant of Health During Hurricane Idalia (2024)
Xiang Yan, Sara Garces, Shih-Kai Huang, Katelyn Sowell, Catherine Campbell, Shangkun Jiang, Eliana Duarte, and Xilei Zhao
Questions?
Please contact the Natural Hazards Center at haz.research.awards@colorado.edu.
Acknowledgements
The Health and Extreme Weather Research Award Program is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through supplemental support to the National Science Foundation (NSF Awards #1635593 and #2536173). Opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations produced by this program are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NIH, NSF, or the Natural Hazards Center.