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Researching how extreme heat impacts pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and maternity health workers. A European Climate Cluster project. About us: linktr.ee/EUHIGHHorizons

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World Weather Attribution @wwattribution.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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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The Newborn Toolkit @newborntoolkit.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
📢 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...
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- SSNC Implementation Toolkit
Content on this site is co-developed by implementers. | Please send inputs and ideas so we can move faster together.
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Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health Centre, LSHTM @lshtm-march.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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
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Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health Centre, LSHTM @lshtm-march.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
👋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
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The Newborn Toolkit @newborntoolkit.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
📢 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...
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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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...
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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...
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"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
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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...
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🇺🇸🆕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...
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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.
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Dr Chloe Brimicombe @chlobrim.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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...
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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.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"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...
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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · 19/02/2025
Check out this month's Heat Resilience Initiative newsletter, with the latest extreme heat-related news, research, and upcoming events! tinyurl.com/heatresi... #extremeheat
Heat Resilience Initiative open house
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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · 22/02/2025
New blog post on rural heat resilience by @anneliseb.bsky.social, @mwahn.bsky.social and myself! open.substack.com/pub/justrura... #heatresilience #extremeheat
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Expanding the Focus: Toward Heat Equity in Rural Areas
Anne-Lise Boyer, Minwoo Ahn and Ladd Keith, University of Arizona
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🌍🌡️🤰 #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! 👇 qrfy.io/r/6lX9glkwWC
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🌎 READY, SET, IMPLEMENT! Join this high-level dialogue focused on the impacts of climate change on #MNCH Register TODAY! qrfy.io/r/pUUBOgdu6V @pmnch.bsky.social @who.int @savechildrenintl.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @greenclimate.fund @adb.org @cleanairfund.bsky.social
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🗞️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
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Nigeria Must Embrace Climate-Resilient Healthcare to Protect Mothers
Adanna Opara (Lead Writer)
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Happening now!
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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...
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
⚡️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...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Short, online course @mcgillghp.bsky.social Summer Institute Introduction to Gender Equality and Global Health May 20-23, 2025 www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...
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Dr Chloe Brimicombe @chlobrim.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🚨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 ☺️.
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🌳 🪭 🏥 🇿🇦 😎 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-
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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.
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
✒️🗓️ 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
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🚨🌶️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
"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
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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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!
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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Escalating heat 🥵 exposure poses a major threat to maternal and neonatal health. A new key systematic review and meta-analysis of heat exposure impacts on maternal, fetal and neonatal health was just published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Medicine last month. ⤵️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Hot off the blog press: HIGH Horizons highlights from October's Climate And Health Africa Conference (CHAC) in Harare, Zimbabwe - the first conference in history to focus solely on the intersection of climate change and health in Africa. www.high-horizons.eu/chac-2024/ @1verofilippi.bsky.social
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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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Veronique Filippi @1verofilippi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Heatwaves in Kenya pose risks for mothers and infants, yet many interviewed mothers are unaware of early warning systems or weather updates journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Bridging this gap with affected communities is crucial for safeguarding health during extreme heat. 👩‍👧
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The effects of #extremeheat on #pregnancy continue to be an often-overlooked #climatechange impact. An October report in assoc. w/ @UNFCCC found extreme heat increases: 🔹stillbirth 🔹preterm delivery 🔹preeclampsia 🔹complications for babies in the womb news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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Climate crisis endangers pregnant women and babies: Report
Extreme climate events including heat waves, flooding and drought can be dangerous for anyone, but pregnant women and their babies are particularly vulnerable, according to a new report. Researchers w...
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debrajacksonnole.bsky.social @debrajacksonnole.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
@lshtm.bsky.social Prof Susannah Mayhew gives plenary address on climate and health systems @hsr2024.bsky.social
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Glad to see the groundbreaking systematic review on the impacts of heat exposure on maternal health from Wits PHR, w/ HH researchers, published earlier this month in @naturemedicine.bsky.social up on the big screen at #HSR2024 today. @chlobrim.bsky.social @debrajacksonnole.bsky.social
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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Look, we're on BlueSky! And so are HIGH Horizons researchers. Stay tuned for more from us on 🦋.
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
First evidence suggests heat stress may still affect babies once born Ana Bonell explains the impact of heat stress on foetal development & newborns, supporting calls for urgent interventions to reduce impact of climate change on pregnant women & children.🤰 👇 bit.ly/3ZXmxDb #PublicHealth
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