heat indicators for global health high horizons monitoring early warning systems and health facility interventions for pregnant and postpartum women infants and young children and health workers

there are major gaps in surveillance of climate change and health in the eu and globally making it difficult to track health burdens and policy outcomes the high horizons project over four years involves 5 partners in the eu 3 in africa and 2 international organisations who and unicef it centres on pregnant and postpartum women infants and health workers groups heavily affected by climate change we quantify and monitor direct and indirect health impacts of extreme heat test a personalised early warning system ews and implement integrated adaptationmitigation actions in health facilities analyses of heat impacts and data science predictive modelling using data from sweden lazio italy and health facilities in kenya and south africa underpin all activities these analyses and systematic reviews inform testing and selection of global eu and national indicators analyses also inform cutoff thresholds for ewss stratified by risk groups a smartphone app climappmch will deliver warnings and settingspecific messages codesigned locally the app will be evaluated among 200 mothers and infants in sweden south africa and zimbabwe from antepartum through 12 months of infant age simultaneously we will document impacts of heat exposure on health worker wellbeing health productivity and quality of care including through timemotion studies modifications to health facilities will be codesigned and modelled to reduce heat exposure for health workers and to limit facilities carbon emissions health worker outcomes and facility emissions will be compared pre and postintervention analyses weighing costs and benefits cut across all activities throughout we will disseminate project findings to relevant stakeholders prioritising eu and global policy makers and leveraging existing networks the final set of indicators on climate change and maternal newborn and child health will be released in a who unicef and unfpa guidance documentin order to optimise synergies avoid overlaps and increase the impact of the projects selected for funding from the call horizonhlth2021envhlth0203 health impacts of climate change costs and benefits of action and inaction horizon europe projects 101057843 high horizons 101057131 catalyse 101057764 blueadapt 101057690 climos 101057554 idalert and 101057739trigger the projects will form a cluster common cluster activities will include the following1 common kickoff meeting of the six projects to be organized in cooperation between dg ri and the cluster2annual cluster meetings and periodic report of joint activities delivered at each reporting period3common dissemination and communication activities including a common dissemination and communication strategy for the cluster cluster web portal and visual identity cluster brochure cluster newsletters stakeholder list shared individual data management plans between cluster partners policy strategy of the cluster including joint policy briefs and scientific strategy of the cluster the penholder and project responsible for each joint deliverable will be decided in the document setting out the modalities for implementation of the cluster to be agreed on during 2022 4 thematic workshopstrainings on issues of common interest to be defined in the context of the scientific strategy of the cluster 5 working groups on topics of common interest eg data management communication and dissemination sciencepolicy link to be defined in the context of the scientific strategy of the cluster