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Stanford's Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies has made grants to five new interdisciplinary faculty projects.

The projects will examine China's environmental protection efforts, investigate ties between climate change and civil conflict in poor countries, fight the effects of anemia on the academic performance of Chinese children, develop curriculum units on infectious pandemic diseases, and study the effects of international migration on human well-being.

In addition, a faculty team trying to improve the health of orphaned and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe was awarded a planning grant.

"These new interdisciplinary projects have enormous potential to advance environmental protection, human health, education and well-being for hundreds of millions of people around the world," President John Hennessy said.

The $3 million fund was established by the Office of the President and the Stanford International Initiative in 2005.

The projects and their principal investigators are:

China's Green GDP: Governance, Organization and Science in China's Environmental Protection Efforts. Xueguang Zhou, sociology and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI); Yinyu Ye, management science and engineering; Leonard Ortolano, civil and environmental engineering.

Climate Change and Conflict: What Are the Links and Where Is the Evidence? Rosamond Naylor, FSI and Woods Institute for the Environment; Stephen Stedman, FSI and international policy studies; James Jones, anthropology.

"Paying for Performance" in China's Battle Against Anemia. Jennifer Adams, education; Grant Miller, medicine and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research.

Stanford Education for Global HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases and Epidemics. David Katzenstein, infectious diseases; Shelley Goldman, education; Richard Roberts, history; Robert Siegel, microbiology and immunology.

Human Well-Being and International Migration: Issues and Ideas about Ethnicity, Race and Language. Guadalupe Valdés, education; Al Camarillo, history; Tomás Jimenez, sociology; Fernando Mendoza, pediatrics; Miguel Méndez, law; Matthew Snipp, sociology.

Improving Outcomes for Children in Jeopardy in Zimbabwe. Planning Grant. Brent Solvason and Cheryl Koopman, psychiatry and behavioral sciences; Richard Roberts, history.