Researching how exposure to extreme heat impacts pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and health workers
What we do
The HIGH (Heat Indicators for Global Health) Horizons research consortium project is currently conducting research to:
- Quantify and monitor the health impacts of extreme heat on pregnant mothers, infants, and health workers
- Test a personalised heatwave early warning system for pregnant mothers and health workers
- Implement health facility climate adaptation and mitigation
- Analyse heat impacts and data science predictive modelling using data from Sweden, Italy, and health facilities in Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa
Our work will inform global, EU and national heat-health indicators.
News from HIGH Horizons
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…
CHAC 2024: Highlights from HIGH Horizons presentations at Africa’s first-ever climate health conference
HIGH Horizons researchers are proud to have taken part in Climate and Health Africa Conference 2024 (CHAC), the first conference in history to focus solely on the intersection of climate change and…
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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.