Co-design in climate adaptation
The evidence on extreme heat and maternal health is robust, growing and increasingly difficult to ignore, and yet the gap between what that evidence recommends and what pregnant women and new mothers are actually able to do in the face of extreme heat remains one of the most persistent challenges in translating climate health research into real-world impact. Understanding why that gap exists, and how to close it, requires the global health community to look beyond the quality of its science and examine the assumptions embedded in how it designs the tools and systems built from that science.