HIGH Horizons

A recent heatwave in Central Asia was up to 10°C hotter compared to the preindustrial climate – a change described by one of our scientists as "frankly bonkers."

Our study also found an unusually rapid increase in March temperatures in the region. We've never seen anything like it before.

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📢 Join us on #WorldHealthDay for a LIVE event with @NEST360org
🔎 “Faster Together: Hope for Accelerating Neonatal Survival Across Africa with NEST360”
📆 7th April, 2025
🕐 3pm EAT| 1pm BST| 8am EST
👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/faste...

How is climate change impacting newborn health? 🌡️⛈️

Join the next @newborntoolkit.bsky.social webinar to find out more about the threats of #climate change and how we should respond.

📅 15 April 2025
🔗 bit.ly/43uU1L6

@lshtm.bsky.social @highhorizonseu.bsky.social

👋We’re the Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health Centre at @lshtm.bsky.social – also known as MARCH!

Our Centre brings together over 550 researchers from different fields to improve women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health worldwide.

Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4caJiYr

📢 Join us for our next Newborn Toolkit webinar!
🔎 “Fighting for our Future: Climate Risks, Realities and Responses for newborns?” With Live French translation!
📆15th April, 2025
🕐 3pm EAT| 1pm BST| 8am EST
👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/fight...

FPH Climate and Health Conference: connecting for action on climate change The need for urgent and effective action on climate change across the public health workforce is ever more pressing. With this in mind, the FPH Sustainable Development SIG invites all public health co...

The Faculty’s Climate and Health Conference 2025 is taking place on 9 May in London.

We are welcoming poster abstract submissions until Monday 7 April!

Visit our website for more information, a draft agenda, and to book your place.

www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...

We must fight even harder to protect women’s health in the era of Trump and the global right Much attention has been focused on the Trump administration’s rollback of women’s health and rights. But their alternative model of global health multilateralism will be equally damaging, writes Sophi...

"Any compromise to the tools we have to protect #women’s #health will be damaging and is a politically naive move." says Sophie Harman www.bmj.com/content/388/...
#WomensDay

Americans Are Increasingly Aware That Climate Change Is Harming Their Health - Inside Climate News New survey also shows growing trust in scientists and health professionals as the federal government slashes resources for climate and health research and interventions.

🇺🇸🆕Survey shows 37 % of Americans are able to identify at least one health climate-related danger inc. respiratory problems, extreme heat, pollution.
➕Growing trust in scientists & health pros as US gov. slashes resources for research & interventions.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0403202...

Heat Domes: How to Be Ready | Americares Heat domes are a type of heat wave, where hot air becomes trapped over a region for an extended period of time.

Great blog post here👇. Grey's anatomy had a heatdome episode. The portrayal and history of heat in culture is something I have been interested in for a while. It potentially shapes our understanding of the risk and interactions. I'd love to look into it more!

www.americares.org/news/2025-03...

"40.000 people in India alone suffered from heat strokes resulting in the death of 700 people in 2024" stated @jenimiller.bsky.social www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/heal...

Heat Resilience Initiative open house

Check out this month's Heat Resilience Initiative newsletter, with the latest extreme heat-related news, research, and upcoming events! tinyurl.com/heatresi... #extremeheat

Expanding the Focus: Toward Heat Equity in Rural Areas Anne-Lise Boyer, Minwoo Ahn and Ladd Keith, University of Arizona

New blog post on rural heat resilience by @anneliseb.bsky.social, @mwahn.bsky.social and myself! open.substack.com/pub/justrura... #heatresilience #extremeheat

🌍🌡️🤰 #ClimateChange is a health threat for all, including pregnant women, and can have lifelong consequences!

💡 FIND OUT MORE in this dialogue that will present the latest evidence, intersectoral action & financing strategies for climate-resilient societies.

DON’T MISS IT! 👇
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🌎 READY, SET, IMPLEMENT! Join this high-level dialogue focused on the impacts of climate change on #MNCH

Register TODAY!

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Nigeria Must Embrace Climate-Resilient Healthcare to Protect Mothers Adanna Opara (Lead Writer)

🗞️Great to see our research making waves in Nigeria!

Read more from Nigeria Health Watch on how to protect pregnant women from extreme heat: nigeriahealthwatch.medium.com/nigeria-must...

@fortunatemach.bsky.social

Happening now!

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

2️⃣ days to go before GCHA 1st Membership Assembly!
Let's get together:
👉200+ #Health organisations,
👉GCHA Board of Directors,
👉 GCHA staff,
➕engage with international peers on the most pressing climate & health issues of our time.
🚨Registrations bit.ly/GCHAMembersh...

⚡️For tomorrow's first GCHA General Membership Assembly, we are honoured to welcome:
Dr. Vanessa Kerry, American physician, public health expert & advocate & CEO of Seed Global Health.
⌛️Last chance to register: bit.ly/GCHAMembersh...

Short, online course @mcgillghp.bsky.social Summer Institute

Introduction to Gender Equality and Global Health

May 20-23, 2025

www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...

🚨I started my new postdoc fellow role @lshtm.bsky.social looking at the impact of overheating on health in the UK. This is an exciting next step in my journey. Thank you to everyone who supported me so far including all my colleagues on @highhorizonseu.bsky.social ☺️.

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 full sun.

🌳 🪭 🏥 🇿🇦 😎 Indigenous South African tree-planting in action!

We're proud that our Wits RHI researchers have helped plant 50 trees at Tshwane health facilities, promising cooling shade for pregnant women and health workers.

📖Read more on our blog: high-horizons.eu/newly-planted-

✒️🗓️ Sign up now for our March 3rd 🌍 🩺 @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social pre-conference workshop on climate measurement.

Led by researchers from HIGH Horizons and @lshtm.bsky.social, facilitated by @debrajacksonnole.bsky.social.

➡️ Register: climatehealthcafe.org/conference-w...

#ClimateHealth

Thank you to the study’s authors: Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, @chlobrim.bsky.social, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varvara Mouchtouri, Christos Kadjichristodoulou, and the HIGH Horizons Study Group. 🧵6/6

@1verofilippi.bsky.social @daalenkim.bsky.social

The datasets, which contain daily mean, maximum and minimum values of 12 heat stress indices averaged over Greek communes from January 1998 to December 2022 can be downloaded👇

🧵5/6

zenodo.org/records/1095...

“Anyone who examines these indicators at a large, nationwide scale now can have them just by downloading and working in whatever environment he/she wishes, said Dr Michalis Koureas of the University of Thessaly, an author on the study. 🧵4/6

The paper provides 🇬🇷Greek datasets at the municipality level for twelve different indices that can be used to quantify the exposure of individuals to heat 👇 🧵3/6

Daily time series of 12 human thermal stress indices in Greece, aggregated at commune level (1998–2022) In this paper we present a dataset that contains daily mean, maximum and minimum values of 12 heat stress indices averaged over Greek communes from Ja…

The study, “Daily time series of 12 human thermal stress indices in Greece, aggregated at commune level (1998-2022),” has been published in the journal Data in Brief this month by researchers at the University of Thessaly and University of Graz.🧵2/6

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"We are sharing very detailed datasets of these heat indexes for Greece for 20 years. Anyone who examines these indicators at a nationwide scale now can have them just by downloading and working in whatever environment he/she wishes." - Dr Michalis Koureas, Environmental Engineer, Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Thessaly

🚨🌶️Heat dataset publication alert! HIGH Horizons researchers have published open access data set of human thermal stress indices for 🇬🇷Greece that can be used by researchers or authorities aiming to investigate 🔥heat and 🩺health in the country. 🧵1/6

@heathealth.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

Thank you to the Climate & Health Cluster for organising the workshop on bridging the gap between scientific evidence and decision-making processes last week!

Exciting to share experiences from the Lancet Countdown in Europe & connect with researchers among all the six cluster projects!