Heat Indicators for Global Health (HIGH Horizons): monitoring, Early Warning Systems and health facility interventions for pregnant and postpartum women, infants and young children and health workers

Projektinformationen

HIGH Horizons

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 101057843

DOI

10.3030/101057843

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 13 Juli 2022

Startdatum 1 September 2022

Enddatum 31 August 2026

Finanziert unter

• Health

Gesamtkosten

€ 9 255 941,25

EU-Beitrag

€ 9 255 878,75

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Belgium

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Leistungen

Documents, reports (18)

Report on modelling of alternative adaptation interventions
Approved TOR of Advisory Board
Carbon emission assessment report
Protocol for testing of the EWS among pregnant and postpartum women, and young children
Study Initiation Package

Study initiation package (before enrolment of the first study participant) including: i) registration number of the clinical study ii)final version of study protocol as approved by the ethics committee (a data collection plan specifying the frequency, the needs and the responsibilities of data collection processes, a biospecimen collection plan specifying the frequency, the needs and the responsibilities of sample collection, processing, coding and storage and laboratory analysis procedures, iii) ethics approvals required for the enrolment of the first study participant.

Heat-health analysis report from Italian, Swedish and African data 1

Heat-health analysis report from Italian, Swedish and African data 2

Report on predictive heat warning thresholds
Data management plan (year 1)
stakeholder list
Publication policy
common dissemination and communication strategy for the cluster
Dissemination, exploitation and communication plan and strategy
Protocol and ethics approval for mitigation interventions evaluation
Project management and quality management plan
Environmental exposures in health facilities
Approved TOR of Steering Committee
Updated systematic review 1
Report on photo voice sub-study, and the locally-adapted and optimized messaging

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Project website

Project website, Logo, Visual Design, Social Media

Project logo, social media and online presence established
cluster web portal and visual identity

Other (1)

Expert Group established and operational

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Tool for modelling of alternative mitigation interventions

Veröffentlichungen

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Vulnerable to heat stress: gaps in international standard metric thresholds

Autoren: C. Brimicombe, C. Gao, I. M. Otto
Veröffentlicht in: International Journal of Biometeorology, 2024, ISSN 0020-7128
Herausgeber: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-024-02783-6

A scoping review on heat indices used to measure the effects of heat on maternal and perinatal health

Autoren: Chloe Brimicombe, Francesca Conway, Anayda Portela, Darshnika Lakhoo, Nathalie Roos, Chuansi Gao, Ijeoma Solarin, Debra Jackson
Veröffentlicht in: BMJ Public Health, Ausgabe 2, 2024, ISSN 2059-7908
Herausgeber: BMJ Journals
DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2023-000308

Daily time series of 12 human thermal stress indices in Greece, aggregated at commune level (1998–2022)

Autoren: Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, Chloe Brimicombe, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varbara Mouchtouri, Christos Hadjichristodoulou
Veröffentlicht in: Data in Brief, Ausgabe 58, 2025, ISSN 2352-3409
Herausgeber: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.DIB.2024.111264

Navigating the health frontiers of Africa’s climate challenge

Autoren: Fortunate Machingura
Veröffentlicht in: Nature Medicine, 2024, ISSN 1546-170X
Herausgeber: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03061-z

A systematic review and meta-analysis of heat exposure impacts on maternal, fetal and neonatal health.

Autoren: Lakhoo DP, Brink N, Radebe L, Craig MH, Pham MD, Haghighi MM, Wise A, Solarin I, Luchters S, Maimela G, Chersich MF; Heat-Health Study Group; HIGH Horizons Study Group
Veröffentlicht in: Nature Medicine, 2024, ISSN 1546-170X
Herausgeber: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41591-024-03395-8

How is maternal, newborn, and child health addressed in Heat Health Action Plans? A scoping review and content analysis

Autoren: Alexandra Czerniewska, Chloe Brimicombe, Alejandro Saez Reale, Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Alyssa Sharkey, Anayda Portela
Veröffentlicht in: Journal of Global Health, Ausgabe 15, 2025, ISSN 2047-2978
Herausgeber: International Society of Global Health
DOI: 10.7189/JOGH.15.04157

Preventing Heat-Related Deaths: The Urgent Need for a Global Early Warning System for Heat

Autoren: Chloe Brimicombe, JD Runkle, C Tuholske C, DIV Domeisen, Chuansi Gao, Jorn Toftum and Ilona M Otto
Veröffentlicht in: PLOS Climate, 2024, ISSN 2767-3200
Herausgeber: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000437

Effects of ambient heat exposure on risk of all-cause mortality in children younger than 5 years in Africa: a pooled time-series analysis

Autoren: Chloe Brimicombe, Katharina Wieser, Tobias Monthaler, Debra Jackson, Jeroen De Bont, Matthew F Chersich, Ilona M Otto
Veröffentlicht in: The Lancet Planetary Health, 2024, ISSN 2542-5196
Herausgeber: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00160-8

Impacts of heat exposure in utero on long-term health and social outcomes: a systematic review

Autoren: Nicholas Brink, Darshnika Lakhoo, Ijeoma Solarin, et al.
Veröffentlicht in: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Ausgabe 24, 2024, ISSN 1471-2393
Herausgeber: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-024-06512-0

The influence of heat exposure on birth and neonatal outcomes in Mombasa, Kenya: a pooled time series analysis

Autoren: Chloe Brimicombe, Debra Jackson, Aquinius Mungatia, Zeenat Sulaiman, Tobias Monthaler, Katharina Wieser, Ilona M Otto
Veröffentlicht in: The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2025, ISSN 2667-2782
Herausgeber: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JOCLIM.2024.100409

Other (7)

Statistical Analysis Plan: Impact of Heat Stress on Healthcare Workers' Quality of Intrapartum Care

Autoren: Gon Giorgia, Fardousi Nasser
Veröffentlicht in: 2025
Herausgeber: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15874509

CARBOMICA: a carbon mitigation and resource allocation modelling tool for the healthcare sector in East Africa

Autoren: HIGH Horizons Consortium
Veröffentlicht in: COP28 Prospectus of Climate-Health Solutions, 2023
Herausgeber: WHO

Heat-health glossary

Autoren: HIGH Horizons consortium
Veröffentlicht in: 2024
Herausgeber: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10562027

HIGH Horizons - Protocol for Population-Level Heat-Health Impacts Study in Greece, Italy, Kenya, South Africa, and Sweden

Autoren: Cherie Part, Chloe Brimicombe, Nathalie Roos, the HIGH Horizons Study Group
Veröffentlicht in: 2024
Herausgeber: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10947995

HIGH Horizons - Conceptual framework of heat on health worker performance and quality of care

Autoren: Lange Isabelle, Fardousi Nasser, Gon Giorgia, Filippi Veronique, HIGH Horizons Study Group
Veröffentlicht in: 2025
Herausgeber: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.16946862

HIGH Horizons - User-friendly tool for heat-related risk assessment of the working environment in health facilities - CHECKLIST

Autoren: Toftum J, for the HIGH Horizons Study Group
Veröffentlicht in: 2025
Herausgeber: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14943973

Report of a scoping meeting for the selection of indicators to monitor the impact of extreme heat on maternal, newborn and child health, Geneva, Switzerland, 24-25 April 2023

Autoren: World Health Organization
Veröffentlicht in: 2024, ISBN 978-92-4-007983-0
Herausgeber: World Health Organization

Conference proceedings (3)

Heat Health Warning Thresholds for Pregnant and Postpartum Women, Infants and Young Children and Health Workers

Autoren: Chuansi Gao, Clara Heil, Chloe Brimicombe, Koen van der Sanden, Boris Kingma & Annie Portela
Veröffentlicht in: 2024
Herausgeber: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12664206

The impact of extreme heat during pregnancy and childbirth in Johannesburg, South Africa

Autoren: Chloe Brimicombe, Annika Sachs dos Santos, Ijeoma Solarin, Gloria Maimela, Matthew Cherish, Katharina Wieser, Ilona M. Otto
Veröffentlicht in: 2023
Herausgeber: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-7581

" Beyond Ambient Temperature: A Comparative Analysis of Heat Metrics for Detecting Heatwaves on a Country Level"

Autoren: Tobias Monthaler, Katharina Wieser, Chloe Brimicombe
Veröffentlicht in: 2024
Herausgeber: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU24-8448