Protecting pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and health workers from extreme heat
We are an international research consortium studying how extreme 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 health workers
Designing a heat-health early warning system
Adapting maternity health facilities to beat the heat
Reducing carbon footprints at maternity health facilities
Studying how the body responds to heat
News from HIGH Horizons
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…
open access heat stress data for greece creates fresh opportunities for heat health research
HIGH Horizons researchers have published open access human thermal stress indices datasets for Greece that can be used by researchers or authorities aiming to investigate the relationship between heat and health in…
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Partners and Associates
We work at 11 partner universities and research centres across 10 countries in Europe and Africa
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
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