Apply for the 2026 Jane Warren Award

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Apply for the 2027 Jane Warren Award! Applications for the 2027 Jane Warren Award are now open!

What is the Jane Warren Award?

Offered to 6 exemplary students in the environmental health field, the prestigious Jane Warren Award funds recipients to present their research as part of HEI’s Annual Conference. This award is named in remembrance of Dr. Jane Warren, who joined HEI in the 1980s and led HEI’s scientific activities as Director of Science from 1999 until her retirement in 2008. 
 

What does the award offer? 

As in previous years, the Jane Warren Award will be offered to 3 local researchers and 3 researchers based anywhere in the United States. HEI will cover conference registration and meals for all awardees plus travel and hotel costs for non-local applicants. Please note if you apply as a local candidate, travel expenses and accommodations will not be covered by HEI.  

Winners will present their work in a lightning talk and poster session during the conference. Awardees will be selected on a competitive basis, upon review of the application and proposed abstract (see below).

The short lighting talks from the 2026 cohort can be found on HEI’s YouTube here. 

Who is eligible?

The Jane Warren Award is designed for early career student researchers who are in the process of completing a master’s or PhD or are a post-doc and are based in the United States. We encourage researchers from all backgrounds and institutions to apply. If you have previously been a Jane Warren Awardee, then you are not eligible to apply again, but you can apply to our open abstracts (more information can be found here).

Other eligibility requirements include:

• The applicant’s research cannot currently be funded by HEI. 
• The applicant must be able to attend HEI’s Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, April 18-20, 2027. Program details will be posted soon here.
• This year, HEI is interested in highlighting research related to the following topics:
  • Human health risks associated with tire emissions
  • Benefits of medium- and heavy-duty vehicle fleet turnover.
  • Air pollution and infectious diseases.
  • Interventions to minimize population exposures to wildfire smoke – both indoors and outdoors.
  • The urban exposome, health, and interventions.
  • High heat and air quality.
  • The utility of AI applications in environmental health research.

How are the winners chosen? 

All applications will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary team of HEI staff who focus on the topics of interest to HEI (please see the list above for topics that are currently of interest to HEI).

All applications will be anonymized and judged based on the scientific merit and quality of the written abstract and the relevance of the research to HEI’s interests in environmental health.

How to Apply

Applications for the Jane Warren Award are now open and will close on January 8th, 2027. Please submit your application through this form.