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

Project Information

HIGH Horizons

Grant agreement ID: 101057843

DOI 10.3030/101057843

EC signature date 13 July 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• Health

Total cost € 9 255 941,25

EU contribution € 9 255 878,75

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Belgium

Deliverables

Documents, reports (21)

Report on modelling of alternative adaptation interventions
Approved TOR of Advisory Board
Carbon emission assessment report
cluster joint policy briefs month 18
cluster newsletters month 18

cluster newsletters

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.

cluster brochure
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

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Developed ClimApp EWS prototype
Tool for modelling of alternative mitigation interventions

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 (2)

Thematic workshops/trainings on issues of common interest Month 18

Thematic workshops/trainings on issues of common interest

Expert Group established and operational

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (2)

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

Author(s): Chloe Brimicombe, Francesca Conway, Anayda Portela, Darshnika Lakhoo, Nathalie Roos, Chuansi Gao, Ijeoma Solarin, Debra Jackson
Published in: BMJ Public Health, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2059-7908
Publisher: BMJ Journals
DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2023-000308

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Author(s): Nicholas Brink, Darshnika Lakhoo, Ijeoma Solarin, et al.
Published in: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1471-2393
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-024-06512-0

Other (1)

Heat-health glossary

Author(s): HIGH Horizons consortium
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10562027