Protecting pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and maternity care health workers from increasing heat
We are an international research consortium studying how increasing heat affects pregnant and postpartum women, newborns, young children, and health workers who provide maternity care – an often-overlooked issue in plans for climate action.
Our research
Measuring heat-health impacts on pregnant and postpartum women, newborns, young children, and maternity care health workers
Designing a heat-health early warning system mobile app
Adapting maternity and neonatal care health facilities to beat the heat
Reducing carbon footprints at maternity and neonatal care health facilities
Studying the biology of heat on pregnancy
News from HIGH Horizons
Climate-Health Cluster: Celebrating closing the early warning gap together on World Meteorological Day
This World Meteorological Day, we are celebrating our work to close the early warning gap together with all six partners in the Climate-Health Cluster, who collaborate to increase the societal and policy…
Addressing the impact of climate change on child health: an interview for Takeda with Dr Debra Jackson
Debra Jackson, HIGH Horizons Deputy Scientific Coordinator and Takeda Chair in Global Child Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, recently spoke with Takeda about our research in Europe…
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Partners and associates
We work at 11 partner universities and research centres across 10 countries in Europe and Africa
Heat Indicators for Global Health (HIGH) Horizons is one of the six Horizon Europe projects that form the Climate-Health Cluster, funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe research and innovation framework programme
HIGH Horizons is a funder of The CHANCE Network, established in 2021 through the ENBEL-project with the aim of advancing networking, research, learning, policy, and financing for climate change and health in Africa. Our funding helps CHANCE strengthen regional engagements.
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