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World Weather Attribution @wwattribution.bsky.social · Apr 4

A recent heatwave in Central Asia was up to 10°C hotter compared to the preindustrial climate – a change described by one of our scientists as "frankly bonkers."

Our study also found an unusually rapid increase in March temperatures in the region. We've never seen anything like it before.

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The Newborn Toolkit @newborntoolkit.bsky.social · Mar 28

📢 Join us on #WorldHealthDay for a LIVE event with @NEST360org
🔎 “Faster Together: Hope for Accelerating Neonatal Survival Across Africa with NEST360”
📆 7th April, 2025
🕐 3pm EAT| 1pm BST| 8am EST
👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/faste...

- SSNC Implementation Toolkit

Content on this site is co-developed by implementers. | Please send inputs and ideas so we can move faster together.

newborntoolkit.org

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Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health Centre, LSHTM @lshtm-march.bsky.social · Mar 31

How is climate change impacting newborn health? 🌡️⛈️

Join the next @newborntoolkit.bsky.social webinar to find out more about the threats of #climate change and how we should respond.

📅 15 April 2025
🔗 bit.ly/43uU1L6

@lshtm.bsky.social @highhorizonseu.bsky.social

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Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health Centre, LSHTM @lshtm-march.bsky.social · Mar 25

👋We’re the Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health Centre at @lshtm.bsky.social – also known as MARCH!

Our Centre brings together over 550 researchers from different fields to improve women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health worldwide.

Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4caJiYr

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The Newborn Toolkit @newborntoolkit.bsky.social · Mar 20

📢 Join us for our next Newborn Toolkit webinar!
🔎 “Fighting for our Future: Climate Risks, Realities and Responses for newborns?” With Live French translation!
📆15th April, 2025
🕐 3pm EAT| 1pm BST| 8am EST
👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/fight...

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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · Mar 13

The Faculty’s Climate and Health Conference 2025 is taking place on 9 May in London.

We are welcoming poster abstract submissions until Monday 7 April!

Visit our website for more information, a draft agenda, and to book your place.

www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...

FPH Climate and Health Conference: connecting for action on climate change

The need for urgent and effective action on climate change across the public health workforce is ever more pressing. With this in mind, the FPH Sustainable Development SIG invites all public health co...

www.fph.org.uk

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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · Mar 10

"Any compromise to the tools we have to protect #women’s #health will be damaging and is a politically naive move." says Sophie Harman www.bmj.com/content/388/...
#WomensDay

We must fight even harder to protect women’s health in the era of Trump and the global right

Much attention has been focused on the Trump administration’s rollback of women’s health and rights. But their alternative model of global health multilateralism will be equally damaging, writes Sophi...

www.bmj.com

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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · Mar 11

🇺🇸🆕Survey shows 37 % of Americans are able to identify at least one health climate-related danger inc. respiratory problems, extreme heat, pollution.
➕Growing trust in scientists & health pros as US gov. slashes resources for research & interventions.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0403202...

Americans Are Increasingly Aware That Climate Change Is Harming Their Health - Inside Climate News

New survey also shows growing trust in scientists and health professionals as the federal government slashes resources for climate and health research and interventions.

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Dr Chloe Brimicombe @chlobrim.bsky.social · Mar 9

Great blog post here👇. Grey's anatomy had a heatdome episode. The portrayal and history of heat in culture is something I have been interested in for a while. It potentially shapes our understanding of the risk and interactions. I'd love to look into it more!

www.americares.org/news/2025-03...

Heat Domes: How to Be Ready | Americares

Heat domes are a type of heat wave, where hot air becomes trapped over a region for an extended period of time.

www.americares.org

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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · Mar 3

"40.000 people in India alone suffered from heat strokes resulting in the death of 700 people in 2024" stated @jenimiller.bsky.social www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/heal...

www.hindustantimes.com

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · Feb 19

Check out this month's Heat Resilience Initiative newsletter, with the latest extreme heat-related news, research, and upcoming events! tinyurl.com/heatresi... #extremeheat

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · Feb 22

New blog post on rural heat resilience by @anneliseb.bsky.social, @mwahn.bsky.social and myself! open.substack.com/pub/justrura... #heatresilience #extremeheat

Expanding the Focus: Toward Heat Equity in Rural Areas

Anne-Lise Boyer, Minwoo Ahn and Ladd Keith, University of Arizona

open.substack.com

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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · Feb 25

🌍🌡️🤰 #ClimateChange is a health threat for all, including pregnant women, and can have lifelong consequences!

💡 FIND OUT MORE in this dialogue that will present the latest evidence, intersectoral action & financing strategies for climate-resilient societies.

DON’T MISS IT! 👇
qrfy.io/r/6lX9glkwWC

HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · Feb 21

🌎 READY, SET, IMPLEMENT! Join this high-level dialogue focused on the impacts of climate change on #MNCH

Register TODAY!

qrfy.io/r/pUUBOgdu6V

@pmnch.bsky.social @who.int @savechildrenintl.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @greenclimate.fund @adb.org @cleanairfund.bsky.social

HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · Feb 20

🗞️Great to see our research making waves in Nigeria!

Read more from Nigeria Health Watch on how to protect pregnant women from extreme heat: nigeriahealthwatch.medium.com/nigeria-must...

@fortunatemach.bsky.social

Nigeria Must Embrace Climate-Resilient Healthcare to Protect Mothers

Adanna Opara (Lead Writer)

nigeriahealthwatch.medium.com

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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · Feb 20

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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · Feb 20

😊 Looking forward to seeing you all later today!

The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · Feb 6

Save the date: First Meeting of All GCHA Members!
Our community is strong, let's all get together:
👉200+ #Health organisations,
👉GCHA Board of Directors,
👉 GCHA staff,
➕engage with international peers on the most pressing climate & health issues of our time.
Registrations bit.ly/GCHAMembersh...

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Feb 20

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised

In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature

www.theguardian.com

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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · Feb 18

2️⃣ days to go before GCHA 1st Membership Assembly!
Let's get together:
👉200+ #Health organisations,
👉GCHA Board of Directors,
👉 GCHA staff,
➕engage with international peers on the most pressing climate & health issues of our time.
🚨Registrations bit.ly/GCHAMembersh...

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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · Feb 19

⚡️For tomorrow's first GCHA General Membership Assembly, we are honoured to welcome:
Dr. Vanessa Kerry, American physician, public health expert & advocate & CEO of Seed Global Health.
⌛️Last chance to register: bit.ly/GCHAMembersh...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Feb 16

Short, online course @mcgillghp.bsky.social Summer Institute

Introduction to Gender Equality and Global Health

May 20-23, 2025

www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...

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Dr Chloe Brimicombe @chlobrim.bsky.social · Feb 3

🚨I started my new postdoc fellow role @lshtm.bsky.social looking at the impact of overheating on health in the UK. This is an exciting next step in my journey. Thank you to everyone who supported me so far including all my colleagues on @highhorizonseu.bsky.social ☺️.

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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · Jan 21

🌳 🪭 🏥 🇿🇦 😎 Indigenous South African tree-planting in action!

We're proud that our Wits RHI researchers have helped plant 50 trees at Tshwane health facilities, promising cooling shade for pregnant women and health workers.

📖Read more on our blog: high-horizons.eu/newly-planted-

Newly planted trees outside South African health facilities promise cooling shade for pregnant women and health workers

Walk up to a health facility in Tshwane, South Africa on a hot summer morning, and you are likely to find long, snaky queues of people, including pregnant women, waiting outside—in the full sun.

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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · Jan 20

✒️🗓️ Sign up now for our March 3rd 🌍 🩺 @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social pre-conference workshop on climate measurement.

Led by researchers from HIGH Horizons and @lshtm.bsky.social, facilitated by @debrajacksonnole.bsky.social.

➡️ Register: climatehealthcafe.org/conference-w...

#ClimateHealth

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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · Jan 14

Thank you to the study’s authors: Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, @chlobrim.bsky.social, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varvara Mouchtouri, Christos Kadjichristodoulou, and the HIGH Horizons Study Group. 🧵6/6

@1verofilippi.bsky.social @daalenkim.bsky.social

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HIGH Horizons @highhorizonseu.bsky.social · Jan 14

The datasets, which contain daily mean, maximum and minimum values of 12 heat stress indices averaged over Greek communes from January 1998 to December 2022 can be downloaded👇

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zenodo.org/records/1095...

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

The overview table of the dataset containing 12 Human Thermal Stress Indices in Greece (HTSI-GR): Heat indices names Description Units Reference Dataset file names AT Apparent Temperature °C Steadman,...

zenodo.org

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