Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Award
Improving Climate Services for Public Health Practitioners in Resource-Constrained Settings
Funded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund
The Challenge
Climate-related extreme events are increasing food & water insecurities, leading to malnutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases.
Public health and nutrition practitioners need access to climate services (information, tools, and training) to tackle the complex health challenges of climate disruption.
Gap in access and utility of climate service among health practitioners as well as questionable contextual and practical utility of tools.
Climate information services for nutrition
The use of climate information and services by the nutrition community to inform the targeting and delivery of these actions has been extremely limited.
Climate information across different timescales have a potential role to play to help address the Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 3 through:
- Risk assessment and continued monitoring,
- Better targeting of near-term responses and interventions,
- Early warnings, preparedness, and early actions, and
- Long-term planning, investment, and resilience.
Climate information and services include..
- The production, translation, transfer, and use of climate knowledge and information in decision-making, policy-making, and planning
- Support climate adaptation by mitigating the negative effects of climate change and variability
- Climate data and information underpinning climate services can include: climatological (past), monitoring (present), and forecast (future) information.
