GAP ANALYSIS · RESEARCH YEAR · FY2026
What was promised. What was lost. What it takes to get back.
Baseline is what Harvard Chan C-CHANGE was funded to deliver. Current is what remains. Every gap has a source, a size, an owner, and a due date — or it's just a headline nobody's going to keep.
FILTER BY PILLARALL PILLARSINDIVIDUALSHEALTH CARE SYSTEMSCOMMUNITIES AND CITIESNATIONAL AND GLOBAL POLICY
BASELINE
$8M
what we were funded to do
CURRENT
$2.15M
27% of baseline still secured
LOST
$4.03M
5 lines cut
NET GAP
$5.85M
$0 in flight · 5 unassigned
GAP TYPE CLASSIFICATION
FUNDING GAP
$4.03M
5 lines · 100% of loss
PROGRAM GAP
$0
0 lines · 0% of loss
STAKEHOLDER GAP
$0
0 lines · 0% of loss
CAPACITY GAP
$0
0 lines · 0% of loss
DELIVERY GAP
$0
0 lines · 0% of loss
BASELINE VS CURRENT · BY PILLAR
Coverage = (current secured + recovery in-flight) ÷ baseline commitment.
Individuals
APECS · Air Purification for Eosinophilic COPD
BASELINE
$1.85M
CURRENT
$400K
LOST
−$1.10M
COVERAGE22%
Health care systems
Climate MD + Frontline Clinic Resilience
BASELINE
$2.40M
CURRENT
$670K
LOST
−$900K
COVERAGE28%
Communities and cities
ACRES · Mystic River Watershed + C-EARTH heat interventions
BASELINE
$2.10M
CURRENT
$560K
LOST
−$1.33M
COVERAGE27%
National and global policy
CHAIR-India + Climate-Smart Public Health (Madagascar/Nepal)
BASELINE
$1.65M
CURRENT
$520K
LOST
−$700K
COVERAGE32%
GENERATED VIEWS
Five lenses on the same recovery data
5 LINES · $4.03M TOTAL
NIH NHLBI R01 (Y3–Y5 continuation)
Individuals · Funding gap · cut 2026-01-15
COPD patients enrolled through Y5 of the APECS trial
−$1.10M
HRSA cooperative agreement
Health care systems · Funding gap · cut 2026-01-15
FQHC clinicians trained through the climate-resilience playbook
−$900K
NIEHS P42 Superfund center
Communities and cities · Funding gap · cut 2025-01-15
Cumulative-impact monitoring across the 21 EJ census tracts
−$850K
USAID climate-health line
National and global policy · Funding gap · cut 2025-01-15
Environmental exposure linkage to national health datasets abroad
−$700K
EPA EJ collaborative
Communities and cities · Funding gap · cut 2025-01-15
Cumulative-impact monitoring across the 21 EJ census tracts
−$480K
INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT · HARVARD
Entire federally funded biodiversity research portfolio eliminated
PORTFOLIO STATUS
Eliminated
FUNDING SCOPE
Direct federal research funding
CERTAINTY
Confirmed within modeled scope
INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT
Harvard-wide direct federal portfolio cuts (~1,000 grants/contracts terminated by early June 2025)
LOSS EVENTS
Every line that was cut, across every pillar
SOURCE · PILLAR · AMOUNT · WHEN · PROMISE BROKEN
NIH NHLBI R01 (Y3–Y5 continuation)
Individuals · Funding gap · cut 2026-01-15 · Continuation withdrawn Q1 FY26
Promise broken: COPD patients enrolled through Y5 of the APECS trial
−$1.10M
RECOVERY
HRSA cooperative agreement
Health care systems · Funding gap · cut 2026-01-15 · Line item cut in FY26 CR
Promise broken: FQHC clinicians trained through the climate-resilience playbook
−$900K
RECOVERY
NIEHS P42 Superfund center
Communities and cities · Funding gap · cut 2025-01-15 · Center grant not renewed
Promise broken: Cumulative-impact monitoring across the 21 EJ census tracts
−$850K
RECOVERY
EPA EJ collaborative
Communities and cities · Funding gap · cut 2025-01-15 · Program terminated Feb 2025
Promise broken: Cumulative-impact monitoring across the 21 EJ census tracts
−$480K
RECOVERY
USAID climate-health line
National and global policy · Funding gap · cut 2025-01-15 · Agency dissolution FY25
Promise broken: Environmental exposure linkage to national health datasets abroad
−$700K
RECOVERY