Health will be an important focus of the upcoming annual United Nations (UN) climate conference taking place in November in Baku, Azerbaijan, according to the COP29 Presidency and the World Health Organization (WHO).
A City Finds Success Using 'Trees as Medicine'
A study in Louisville, Kentucky, has connected new plantings with health data from nearby residents — a first in urban forestry.
The Economic Constraints on Clean Water
Investing in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) reduces the financial costs of disease outbreaks
Climate Change, Wildfires and Air Pollution Damaging Global Health, WMO Warns
Climate change, wildfires and air pollution are locked in a deadly cycle threatening human health, ecosystems and agriculture worldwide, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Thursday.
Potential impact of climatic factors on malaria in Rwanda between 2012 and 2021: a time-series analysis
This study analyses how climatic factors influence malaria transmission across Rwanda, thereby informing tailored interventions and enhancing disease management frameworks.
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.
A Strategic Approach to HIV Programming in a Changing Climate: FHI 360's Vision for Collective Action
This document offers strategic pillars for climate-responsive HIV programming, outlining collective action and swift, comprehensive, innovative responses to address the effects of climate change on HIV response.
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.
Pathways to strengthen the climate resilience of health systems in the Peruvian Amazon by working with Indigenous leaders, communities and health officers
This study aimed to inform efforts to enhance climate change resilience in a health context by: (1) examining if and how adaptation to climate change is taking place within health systems in the Peruvian Amazon, (2) understanding how Indigenous communities and leaders’ responses to climatic hazards are being articulated within the official health system and (3) to provide recommendations to increase the climate change resilience of Amazon health systems.
Tackling Water Scarcity With Innovative Irrigation Solutions
UNDP and the Ministry of Agriculture coalition, under the SCRALA project, is enhancing climate resilience among smallholder farmers by implementing irrigation systems in Zambia
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