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

Joacim Rocklöv*, Jan C. Semenza, IDAlert Consortium, 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 GuoKatie 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

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number100701
JournalThe Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Volume32
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2023

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work is funded within the framework of the Horizon Europe program through the project IDAlert ( https://idalertproject.eu ) with grant no. 101057554 and UK Research and Innovation project refererence no. 10056533. IDAlert is part of the EU climate change and health cluster ( https://climate-health.eu ).

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