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 […]
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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
Debra Jackson, HIGH Horizons Deputy Scientific Coordinator and Takeda Chair in Global Child Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, recently spoke with Takeda about our research
HIGH Horizons researchers have published open access human thermal stress indices datasets for Greece that can be used by researchers or authorities aiming to investigate the relationship between heat and
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
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
The risk of extreme heat on child mortality is influenced by factors such as age, region and season, new study shows. Research, led by members of the HIGH Horizons consortium,
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