Climate Resilience Innovations
Building Climate-Adaptive Health Systems
Heat Resilience Action Network
Protecting vulnerable populations from extreme heat through:
● First heat health action plan prepared for coastal cities in 2013
● Occupational heat protection for informal workers
● Training Medical Officers and Auxiliary Midwives for heat-related morbidities
● Climate-related studies in the context of morbidity and mortality for better forecasting and disaster management
● Awareness workshops for elderly and chronic disease patients regarding heat stress
● Temperature-related illness surveillance and rapid response via statistical analysis from the last 10 years
Climate-Health Intelligence System
Comprehensive Monitoring and Prevention:
● Climate-related disease pattern analysis
● Weather correlation studies for health forecasting
● Vector-borne disease early warning systems
● Community-based surveillance networks