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Our research
We are an international research consortium studying how heat affects pregnant and postpartum women, newborns, young children, and the health workers who serve them – an often-overlooked issue in plans for climate action.
We are a consortium of scientists across 10 countries in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, researching to increase knowledge about how heat is affecting pregnant and postpartum women, newborns, children, and the health workers who serve them – information vital to protecting these groups from increasing heat across the globe.
We are an international research consortium studying how heat affects pregnant and postpartum women, newborns, young children, and the health workers who serve them – an often-overlooked issue in plans for climate action.
We are a consortium of scientists across 10 countries in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, researching to increase knowledge about how heat is affecting pregnant and postpartum women, newborns, children, and the health workers who serve them – information vital to protecting these groups from increasing heat across the globe.
Our
Research
heat-health impacts on pregnant and postpartum women, newborns, and young children
the MotherHeat Alert heat-health early warning system mobile app
maternity and neonatal health facilities to beat the heat
carbon footprints at maternity and neonatal health facilities
the biology of heat on pregnancy
Heat Indicators for Global Health (HIGH) Horizons is one of the six Horizon Europe projects that form the Climate-Health Cluster, funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe research and innovation framework programme.
HIGH Horizons is a funder of The CHANCE Network, established in 2021 through the ENBEL-project with the aim of advancing networking, research, learning, policy, and financing for climate change and health in Africa. Our funding helps CHANCE strengthen regional engagements.
The Study Centre for Perinatal Epidemiology (SPE) is a non-profit organization based in Flanders, Belgium, focused on advancing perinatal epidemiology and improving maternal and newborn health outcomes, in collaboration with the Flemish Government and CEpiP.
TNO The Netherlands is subcontracted by the University of Lund, one of the HIGH Horizons partners, to co-design and develop the smartphone application MotherHeat Alert.
The Epidemiology Department of the Lazio Region (ASL Roma 1), Rome, is subcontracted by Karolinska Institutet to develop a regional MNCH database for Lazio and analyse the effects of heat exposure on perinatal health, with authorised access to the regional birth registry.
The Montevideo Clinical & Epidemiological Research Unit is an independent non-profit organisation,
Heat Indicators for Global Health (HIGH) Horizons is one of the six Horizon Europe projects that form the Climate-Health Cluster, funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe research and innovation framework programme.
HIGH Horizons is a funder of The CHANCE Network, established in 2021 through the ENBEL-project with the aim of advancing networking, research, learning, policy, and financing for climate change and health in Africa. Our funding helps CHANCE strengthen regional engagements.
The Study Centre for Perinatal Epidemiology (SPE) is a non-profit organization based in Flanders, Belgium, focused on advancing perinatal epidemiology and improving maternal and newborn health outcomes, in collaboration with the Flemish Government and CEpiP.
TNO The Netherlands is subcontracted by the University of Lund, one of the HIGH Horizons partners, to co-design and develop the smartphone application MotherHeat Alert.
The Epidemiology Department of the Lazio Region (ASL Roma 1), Rome, is subcontracted by Karolinska Institutet to develop a regional MNCH database for Lazio and analyse the effects of heat exposure on perinatal health, with authorised access to the regional birth registry.
The Montevideo Clinical & Epidemiological Research Unit is an independent non-profit organisation,
Developed by HIGH Horizons in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), this framework explains how extreme heat directly and indirectly impacts pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children.
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Where we work
Angola
Tanzania
