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Climate change mitigation and adaptation to protect human health are the grand challenges of our time. Placing health and the opportunities to safeguard health through the co-benefits of climate action at the center of climate policy is key to advancing toward net-zero emissions. However, evidence on the impacts of climate actions is largely compartmentalized. There is a deep tradition of ex ante climate modeling and a corresponding deep tradition of evaluation and systematic reviews of implemented actions in health, but links between these complementary activities are still underdeveloped. There is a critical imperative to develop a policy-relevant field that generates and draws on all the rigorous evidence to answer relevant questions for decision-making, presenting clear guidelines about what works, for whom, how, why, and for how much, using the most up-to-date studies available.
This special session will discuss options for moving forward on improving evidence-informed policy on integrated adaptation and mitigation climate actions for health. The topics discussed will include
-evidence generation: guidance for primary studies that measure the impacts of climate actions on low-emissions development and health outcomes;
-evidence synthesis: guidance for conducting living systematic reviews and evidence maps that can incorporate evaluations of implemented actions and modeling studies and guidance for the potential of digital technologies to assist in evidence synthesis; and
-knowledge translation: guidelines for effective knowledge translation for decision-making and effective implementation of research findings.
Description and activities/interaction plans
The special session will include short presentations (9 min each) and interactive discussion (45 min), including
1.climate adaptation, mitigation, and health: the imperative to develop and implement evidence-informed policy (Andy Haines, LSHTM);
2.integrated efforts to generate new evidence on climate and health using modeling and evaluation (Pauline Scheelbeek/Hugh Sharma Waddington, LSHTM);
3.prioritizing human health in climate discourse: harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence and digital technologies (Isabel Fletcher, Wellcome);
4.living evidence synthesis for climate adaptation and mitigation (Julian Elliott, Future Evidence Foundation); and
5.how guideline development can improve decision support in climate and health (Lisa Askie, WHO).
Discussion (chaired by Andy Haines)
Climate change mitigation and adaptation to protect human health are the grand challenges of our time. Placing health and the opportunities to safeguard health through the co-benefits of climate action at the center of climate policy is key to advancing toward net-zero emissions. However, evidence on the impacts of climate actions is largely compartmentalized. There is a deep tradition of ex ante climate modeling and a corresponding deep tradition of evaluation and systematic reviews of implemented actions in health, but links between these complementary activities are still underdeveloped. There is a critical imperative to develop a policy-relevant field that generates and draws on all the rigorous evidence to answer relevant questions for decision-making, presenting clear guidelines about what works, for whom, how, why, and for how much, using the most up-to-date studies available.
This special session will discuss options for moving forward on improving evidence-informed policy on integrated adaptation and mitigation climate actions for health. The topics discussed will include
-evidence generation: guidance for primary studies that measure the impacts of climate actions on low-emissions development and health outcomes;
-evidence synthesis: guidance for conducting living systematic reviews and evidence maps that can incorporate evaluations of implemented actions and modeling studies and guidance for the potential of digital technologies to assist in evidence synthesis; and
-knowledge translation: guidelines for effective knowledge translation for decision-making and effective implementation of research findings.
Description and activities/interaction plans
The special session will include short presentations (9 min each) and interactive discussion (45 min), including
1.climate adaptation, mitigation, and health: the imperative to develop and implement evidence-informed policy (Andy Haines, LSHTM);
2.integrated efforts to generate new evidence on climate and health using modeling and evaluation (Pauline Scheelbeek/Hugh Sharma Waddington, LSHTM);
3.prioritizing human health in climate discourse: harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence and digital technologies (Isabel Fletcher, Wellcome);
4.living evidence synthesis for climate adaptation and mitigation (Julian Elliott, Future Evidence Foundation); and
5.how guideline development can improve decision support in climate and health (Lisa Askie, WHO).
Discussion (chaired by Andy Haines)