Climate, Environment and Health (CEH) projects were funded by the Belmont Forum to undertake interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research to describe complex climate, ecosystem and health pathways and inform planning and enhance resilience for health adaptation. CEH-funded research outputs aim to improve preparedness and response to climate’s impacts on human health, and support climate services, prevention, adaptation or development measures that provide significant population health benefits.
This session will review progress in the projects in co-design with stakeholders and engagement of the end users of their research. A range of case studies from the CEH projects, which have been running for more than 2 years, will be presented, illustrating a variety of settings, health topics and methods/approaches to co-design.
Case studies include:
working with farmers in Nepal on nutrition (MICRO-POLL);
working with health workers and women in Kenya and Burkina Faso on reducing the impacts of extreme heat (CHAMNHA);
working with communities to manage extreme weather events (CCCEHN);
working with the health sector in Taiwan (AWARD-APR) and
working with farmers and employers to develop research on occupational heat stress (PREP).
We will reflect on the lessons learned from these case studies and identify common themes to inform future researchers and research funders.
This event is organised by the ENBEL project that aims to synthesise the findings of the CEH projects for stakeholders who work on climate and health.
Chair: Sari Kovats, Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Speakers:
Amanda Shores, AAAS S&TP Fellow, Belmont Forum, NSF, Future Earth US Hub
Liz Rowse, Senior Programme Manager, NERC-UKRI
Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health, University College London and University of Agder (CCCEHN)
Thomas Timberlake, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Bristol (MICRO-POLL)
Heath Prince, Director and Research Scientist, Ray Marshall Center, UT Austin (PREP)
Ilana Weiss, Senior Director of Public Health & Policy, La Isla Network (PREP)
Yu-Chun Wang, Professor, Chung Yuan Christian University (AWARD-APR)
Kadidiatou Kadio, Reseacher, Institut de Recherche en Science de la Sante (IRSS) (CHAMNHA)
Adelaide Lusambili, Assistant Professor, Aga Khan University (CHAMNHA)