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Andreas Vilhelmsson BMC Global and Public Health volume 2, Article number: 73 (2024) Cite this article Metrics Climate change is regarded as a threat to global health and health systems around the...

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works with vulnerable and marginalized communities that are disproportionately affected by climate change despite being the least responsible...

Executive Summary We live in a time that is witnessing escalating humanitarian needs in the face of a diminishing response capacity. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is fuelled by much of what drives...

Produced by OCHA’s Regional Office for West and Central Africa, in collaboration with the Humanitarian Advocacy and Communication Technical Working Group and other regional working groups. OCHA...

The Rockefeller Foundation Identifies Critical Gaps in City Responses to Climate-Induced Health Threats Outlines a three-step action plan for action and commits more than $1 million to helping cities...

Situation Analysis: Exploring Linkages Between the Climate Crisis and Humanitarian Health This situation analysis focuses on the interlinkages between climate crisis and humanitarian health. It aims...

Highlights Climate change is impacting almost every aspect of child health and well-being from pregnancy to adolescence. Children are disproportionately affected by climate change because they are...

As global crises join forces, world must adopt forward-looking approach to protect human and planetary health New York, 15 July 2024 – As environmental, technological and societal change join forces...

Silvia Situma, Luke Nyakarahuka, Evans Omondi, Marianne Mureithi, Marshal Mutinda Mweu, Matthew Muturi, Athman Mwatondo, Jeanette Dawa, Limbaso Konongoi, Samoel Khamadi, Erin Clancey, Eric Lofgren,...

El Niño impacts continue to wreak havoc, especially in Eastern and Southern Africa, even as we are quickly heading towards neutral conditions. There is now a 69% chance of a transition to La Niña by...

Climate change creates a ‘cocktail’ of serious health hazards for 70 per cent of the world’s workers, ILO report finds The health consequences of climate change can include cancer, cardiovascular...

This report written by the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, provides an in-depth economic analysis of how climate change will reshape health landscapes over the next two...

UN expert publishes User Guide on right to healthy and sustainable environment Earth Day - 22 April 2024 GENEVA (22 April 2024) – United Nations resolutions that recognise the right to a clean and...

Sweeping global gains in sexual and reproductive health and rights over the last thirty years are marred by an ugly truth – millions of women and girls have not benefited because of who they are or...

El Niño impacts are deepening across the globe, while the current episode has peaked as one of the strongest in history. Countries in Asia and the Pacific are grappling with an intense heatwave and...

Jean Kaseya, Nebiyu Dereje, Raji Tajudeen, Alain Ngashi Ngongo, Nicaise Ndembi, Mosoka Papa Fallah Summary box Climate change has direct and indirect effects on the public health. Africa has been...

The latest analysis from the IASC Global Analysis Cell for the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is clear: El Niño has reached its peak, but its consequences will be felt for the remainder of the...

UNU-IIGH Strategic Plan 2024-2028 Addressing Inequalities in Global Health Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 09/01/2024 – The United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH)...

WHO’s annual malaria report spotlights the growing threat of climate change Despite strides in expanding access to insecticide-treated nets and medicines to help prevent malaria in young children and...

Geneva, 2 November (WMO) - As the world warms at a faster rate than at any point in recorded history, human health is on the frontline. Climate change threatens to reverse decades of progress towards...