HIGH Horizons is an international research project into 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
open access heat stress data for greece opens 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…
Newly planted trees outside South African health facilities promise cooling shade for pregnant women and health workers
Walk up to a health facility in Tshwane, South Africa on a hot summer morning, and you are likely to find long, snaky queues of people, including pregnant women, waiting outside—in the…
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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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