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Walk up to a health facility in Tshwane, South Africa on a hot summer morning, and you are likely to find long, snaky queues of people, including pregnant women, waiting outside—in the full sun. “It’s scorching, but they don’t have shady places,” said Pamela Tshandu, a Stakeholder Engagement Officer at Wits RHI, University of Witwatersrand, […]

HIGH Horizons researchers are proud to have taken part in Climate and Health Africa Conference 2024 (CHAC), the first conference in history to focus solely on the intersection of climate change and health in Africa. The conference, held from 29-31 October, in Harare, Zimbabwe, was hosted by Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research […]

Research, led by members of the HIGH Horizons consortium, showed that the influence of extreme heat on the risk of death in children under five varies by age group, region and season. The study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, examined the effects of heat on child death rates across various regions in Africa, focusing […]

Last week, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent action to address extreme heat. Drawing attention to increasing global temperatures and the health and economic impacts of the climate crisis, the Secretary-General called for urgent actions to care and protect vulnerable populations, safeguard workers, and boost the resilience of economies and societies using data […]

HIGH Horizons’ partner, CeSHHAR, in collaboration with the Zimbabwean Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife and the Ministry of Health and Childcare, will host the first Climate and Health Africa Conference (CHAC). The conference, held in Zimbabwe in October 2024, will address the urgent need to tackle the detrimental health impacts of climate change on […]

As our earth continues to warm, extreme heat events are becoming more frequent and severe, leading to significant health risks to communities around the globe. Populations such as pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and health workers are some of the groups most heavily impacted.  Exposure to heat stress during pregnancy significantly raises the risk of […]

The European Climate-Health Cluster has issued a policy brief titled, “The Importance of Protecting Human Health in EU Climate Policies.” The policy brief highlights the detrimental effects of climate change on human health and advocates for urgent action, providing a set of recommendations to safeguard public health in Europe. HIGH Horizons is one of six Horizon Europe research and […]

As part of the Climate-Health Cluster, we are delighted to share the first cluster newsletter. We are excited to present the coordinators of the 6 cluster projects, who share progress updates from the last 18 months, explain their roles within the cluster, and highlight how their work supports EU policy action to address the health impacts […]

HIGH Horizons was represented at this year’s European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna by consortium members from the University of Graz, Ilona Otto, lead of the project’s work package 2, Climate Scientist Chloe Brimicombe and two graduate students Tobias Monthaler and Katharina Wieser. Ilona Otto presented during the session ‘Earth resilience, tipping points, […]