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Building Effective Communities of Practice for Transdiciplinary Research and Action in Climate Change and Health in Africa

The escalating impacts of climate change on health-determining sectors such as agriculture, food security, energy, disaster risk, and broader social structures require urgent, multi-sectoral approaches. The evolving climate and health policy landscape now advocates for placing health at the centre of climate change decisions, informing integrated National Health Resilience and
National Adaptation Plans. Despite this shift, collaborations between researchers, policymakers, and implementation partners remain underdeveloped, especially in Africa, where only 0.5% of multilateral climate adaptation funds are allocated to the health sector (Turner et al., 2024). Funded by Wellcome, this study aims to enhance the understanding of how Communities of Practice (CoPs) can facilitate the integration of health considerations into climate change policies.

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Climate change and disorders of the nervous system

Anthropogenic climate change is affecting people's health, including those with neurological and psychiatric diseases. Currently, making inferences about the effect of climate change on neurological and psychiatric diseases is challenging because of an overall sparsity of data, differing study methods, paucity of detail regarding disease subtypes, little consideration of the effect of individual and population genetics, and widely differing geographical locations with the potential for regional influences.

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