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

Informations projet

HIGH Horizons

N° de convention de subvention: 101057843

DOI

10.3030/101057843

Date de signature de la CE 13 Juillet 2022

Date de début 1 Septembre 2022

Date de fin 31 Août 2026

Financé au titre de

• Health

Coût total

€ 9 255 941,25

Contribution de l’UE

€ 9 255 878,75

Coordonné par

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Belgium

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Livrables

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

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Vulnerable to heat stress: gaps in international standard metric thresholds

Auteurs: C. Brimicombe, C. Gao, I. M. Otto
Publié dans: International Journal of Biometeorology, 2024, ISSN 0020-7128
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Chloe Brimicombe, Francesca Conway, Anayda Portela, Darshnika Lakhoo, Nathalie Roos, Chuansi Gao, Ijeoma Solarin, Debra Jackson
Publié dans: BMJ Public Health, Numéro 2, 2024, ISSN 2059-7908
Éditeur: 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)

Auteurs: Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, Chloe Brimicombe, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varbara Mouchtouri, Christos Hadjichristodoulou
Publié dans: Data in Brief, Numéro 58, 2025, ISSN 2352-3409
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.DIB.2024.111264

Navigating the health frontiers of Africa’s climate challenge

Auteurs: Fortunate Machingura
Publié dans: Nature Medicine, 2024, ISSN 1546-170X
Éditeur: 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.

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: Nature Medicine, 2024, ISSN 1546-170X
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Alexandra Czerniewska, Chloe Brimicombe, Alejandro Saez Reale, Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Alyssa Sharkey, Anayda Portela
Publié dans: Journal of Global Health, Numéro 15, 2025, ISSN 2047-2978
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Chloe Brimicombe, JD Runkle, C Tuholske C, DIV Domeisen, Chuansi Gao, Jorn Toftum and Ilona M Otto
Publié dans: PLOS Climate, 2024, ISSN 2767-3200
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Chloe Brimicombe, Katharina Wieser, Tobias Monthaler, Debra Jackson, Jeroen De Bont, Matthew F Chersich, Ilona M Otto
Publié dans: The Lancet Planetary Health, 2024, ISSN 2542-5196
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Nicholas Brink, Darshnika Lakhoo, Ijeoma Solarin, et al.
Publié dans: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Numéro 24, 2024, ISSN 1471-2393
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Chloe Brimicombe, Debra Jackson, Aquinius Mungatia, Zeenat Sulaiman, Tobias Monthaler, Katharina Wieser, Ilona M Otto
Publié dans: The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2025, ISSN 2667-2782
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Gon Giorgia, Fardousi Nasser
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15874509

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

Auteurs: HIGH Horizons Consortium
Publié dans: COP28 Prospectus of Climate-Health Solutions, 2023
Éditeur: WHO

Heat-health glossary

Auteurs: HIGH Horizons consortium
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10562027

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

Auteurs: Cherie Part, Chloe Brimicombe, Nathalie Roos, the HIGH Horizons Study Group
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10947995

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

Auteurs: Lange Isabelle, Fardousi Nasser, Gon Giorgia, Filippi Veronique, HIGH Horizons Study Group
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.16946862

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

Auteurs: Toftum J, for the HIGH Horizons Study Group
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: World Health Organization
Publié dans: 2024, ISBN 978-92-4-007983-0
Éditeur: World Health Organization

Conference proceedings (3)

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

Auteurs: Chuansi Gao, Clara Heil, Chloe Brimicombe, Koen van der Sanden, Boris Kingma & Annie Portela
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12664206

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

Auteurs: Chloe Brimicombe, Annika Sachs dos Santos, Ijeoma Solarin, Gloria Maimela, Matthew Cherish, Katharina Wieser, Ilona M. Otto
Publié dans: 2023
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-7581

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

Auteurs: Tobias Monthaler, Katharina Wieser, Chloe Brimicombe
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU24-8448