Decision-support tools to build climate resilience against emerging infectious diseases in Europe and beyond

authored by

IDAlert Consortium , Joacim Rocklöv, Jan C. Semenza, Shouro Dasgupta, Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson, Ahmed Abd El Wahed, Tilly Alcayna, Cristina Arnés-Sanz, Meghan Bailey, Till Bärnighausen, Frederic Bartumeus, Carme Borrell, Laurens Bouwer, Pierre Antoine Bretonnière, Aditi Bunker, Chloe Chavardes, Kim R. van Daalen, João Encarnação, Nube González-Reviriego, Junwen Guo, Katie Johnson, Marion P.G. Koopmans, María Máñez Costa, Antonios Michaelakis, Tomás Montalvo, Anna Omazic, John R.B. Palmer, Raman Preet, Marina Romanello, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Reina S. Sikkema, Marta Terrado, Marina Treskova, Diana Urquiza, Henrik Sjodin, Zia Farooq, Maquines Sewe, Frances MacGuire, Evangelia Zavitsanou, Panos Milonas, Dimitrios Papachristos, Marina Bisia, Georgios Balatsos, Spyros Antonatos, Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Joaquin Triñanes, Mark Williams, Berj Dekramanjian, Karl Broome, Otis Johnson, Thea Wübbelmann

Abstract

Climate change is one of several drivers of recurrent outbreaks and geographical range expansion of infectious diseases in Europe. We propose a framework for the co-production of policy-relevant indicators and decision-support tools that track past, present, and future climate-induced disease risks across hazard, exposure, and vulnerability domains at the animal, human, and environmental interface. This entails the co-development of early warning and response systems and tools to assess the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures across sectors, to increase health system resilience at regional and local levels and reveal novel policy entry points and opportunities. Our approach involves multi-level engagement, innovative methodologies, and novel data streams. We take advantage of intelligence generated locally and empirically to quantify effects in areas experiencing rapid urban transformation and heterogeneous climate-induced disease threats. Our goal is to reduce the knowledge-to-action gap by developing an integrated One Health—Climate Risk framework.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology

External Organisation(s)

Heidelberg University
Umea University
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)
London School of Economics and Political Science
Leipzig University
Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Harvard University
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)
CREAF - Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications
Public Health Agency of Barcelona
Centros de Investigacion Biomedica en Red - CIBER
Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE)
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University of Cambridge
Irideon
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Benaki Phytopathological Institute
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB SANT PAU)
National Veterinary Institute Sweden
Universität Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
University College London (UCL)
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh

Type

Review article

Journal

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe

Volume

32

Publication date

09.2023

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Internal Medicine, Oncology, Health Policy

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, SDG 13 - Climate Action

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100701 (Access: Open)