NSF CAREER proposal workshop

NSF CAREER proposal workshop

Presented by Dr. Lauren Clay, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Emergency Health Services

This session will cover elements of the CAREER program, strategies for success, and planning your submission. Participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm potential research and educational goals, workshop the ideas in small groups, and create an action plan for developing a competitive proposal.

Please click "Going" below to register for this workshop. Lunch will be provided.

Lauren Clay is a disaster scientist and public health researcher. She is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Health Services at University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her research focuses on individual, household, and community health impacts of climate disasters. She has studied Hurricanes Katrina, Harvey, and Florence, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the 2013 Moore, OK tornadoes, and the Camp Fire among other disasters and public health emergencies. Her expertise is in disaster disruption to the local food environment and food and nutrition insecurity. From 2018-2020 she was an Early Career Research Fellow with the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program to study the post-disaster food environment. In 2021, she was awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER and NSF Convergence Accelerator awards focused on bolstering food system resilience to disasters. She co-chairs the national COVID-19 Food and Nutrition Security Working Group supported by Healthy Eating Research, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Nutrition and Obesity Prevention Research and Evaluation Network, a program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has a PhD in Disaster Science and Management from University of Delaware and a Master of Public Health from Drexel University.