Ramtha, Aug. 3 (Petra) -- The Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) and the California San Diego University received $3 million in research funding from the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the GeoHealth Hub project.

The GeoHealth Hub Climate Change and Health in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) project is a collaborative initiative between three US universities and three universities from the MENA Region to generate evidence for policies to minimize adverse health impacts of climate change in the region through state-of-the-art approaches. It focuses on climate-sensitive environmental risks such as nitrate pollution, heat waves, desert dust, and air pollution. The hub's overall activities aim to strengthen different stakeholders' capacity to develop and use evidence-based and cost-effective interventions, according to the NIH's Fogarty International Center website