Make a Gift to CHeRI

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CHeRI scientists, clinicians, trainees, and community partners are creating and putting into practice solutions that protect health today and help build a healthier future. Here in North Carolina and around the globe we are advancing:

• Breakthrough research that reveals how climate change is reshaping human health
• Innovative data and tools that provide earlier warnings and faster, smarter responses to emerging threats
• Life-saving interventions that protect vulnerable communities from heat, disease, and environmental risk

At CHeRI, we believe in the extraordinary power of generosity to redefine what’s possible. Your philanthropy does more than support science — it drives solutions that protect lives and strengthen communities for generations to come.

Opportunities for Impact

The university-wide MADE FOR THIS campaign is a bold commitment to advance innovation, discovery, and health. CHeRI is a critical part of this vision, and your investment helps us act with urgency, scale promising discoveries, and deliver impact where it matters most.

Climate and Health Innovation Fund

Fuel the ideas that make a difference.

Your gift to the Climate and Health Innovation Fund gives CHeRI the flexibility to act in moments that matter — to say “yes” to innovation, urgency, and possibility.

With your support, we can:

• Accelerate breakthrough ideas from concept to impact
• Respond in real time to urgent climate-health challenges
• Expand collaboration with partners at Duke and beyond

Support the Climate and Health Innovation Fund

Big Idea Symposium and Research

Turn bold ideas into real-world solutions.

Each year, CHeRI brings together faculty and trainees to explore transformative ideas at the intersection of climate and health. Your support provides critical seed funding to move the most promising ideas forward — turning insight into action and discovery into measurable impact.

Recent donor-supported projects include:

• Revealing how extreme heat disrupts the human body and advancing remedies that protect vulnerable communities including farm workers and fire fighters
• Improving detection of heat-related emergencies in rural areas and developing community-led action plans that preserve health
• Identifying environmental drivers of conditions such as melanoma and PTSD to enable earlier detection and care

Critical Tools and Data Science

Help deliver the data that saves lives.

In a changing climate, information can mean the difference between risk and readiness.

Your support powers real-time data and tools that help communities anticipate, prepare for, and respond to climate-driven health threats. Your gift will help:

• Provide early warnings for heat waves and disease outbreaks
• Identify populations most at-risk
• Guide the implementation of targeted interventions that prevent illness and death

From North Carolina to communities worldwide, your generosity helps create knowledge that protects people and communities.

Partner With Us

When you give to CHeRI, you are part of something bigger — advancing discovery, strengthening communities, and protecting lives in a changing world.

To explore how your philanthropy can make a lasting difference and discuss specific giving opportunities, please contact:

Jane Tandler, MS, MPH
Director of Development, Special Initiatives
Duke Health Development and Alumni Affairs
 jane.tandler@duke.edu
(919) 385-3139