Extreme heat in health facilities can threaten both staff wellbeing and the quality of care. HIGH Horizons has developed a simple, practical checklist to assess heat risks, evaluate working conditions, and suggest mitigation strategies for safer, climate-resilient healthcare environments.
Heat-related risk assessment in health facilities Read More »
As global temperatures rise, hospitals and clinics across sub-Saharan Africa are becoming dangerously hot for the people who keep them running. The HIGH Horizons study sheds light on how extreme indoor heat is affecting healthcare workers’ wellbeing and the quality of care they provide and what can be done to build safer, climate-resilient health systems.
Working in the heat: how climate change is affecting health workers Read More »
Major themes discussed at the 2025 Global Symposium on Climate Justice and Impacted Populations and the 2025 Global Conference on Climate and Health in Brasília, Brazil.
Climate Action For Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Read More »
Climate and health are now inseparable crises that require urgent and properly resourced action……Africa has the evidence and leadership, what’s missing is climate finance.
Africa’s Climate–Health Response: Action Now Read More »
“Physically, with all the sweating, after some time, maybe afternoon, I feel as if I’m smelling. I have that smell. I wish I can just go and have a shower,
Sweating in Silence: Heat & Health workers Read More »
Designing early warning systems for heat and MNCH Centuries ago, early warning systems looked very different. A lookout would climb a tower and scan the horizon, eyes straining for signs
Designing early warning systems for heat and MNCH Read More »
Beating the heat starts with the building: rethinking health facilities for a warming world Walk into a maternity ward in rural Zimbabwe on a summer afternoon, and you’ll understand something
Publication: Caesarean sections and low birth weight in Kenya related to higher heat stress A new HIGH Horizons study published in the Journal of Climate and Health this month has
This World Meteorological Day, we are celebrating our work to close the early warning gap together with all six partners in the Climate-Health Cluster, who collaborate to increase the societal
