Decision-support tools to build climate resilience against emerging infectious diseases

Climate change is one of several drivers of recurrent outbreaks and geographical range expansion of infectious diseases in Europe. Members of the IDAlert consortium, assembled to address the emergence and transmission of climate-sensitive infectious diseases, have proposed an integrated One Health-Climate Risk framework for the production of policy-relevant indicators and decision-support tools. These aim to track climate-induced disease risks and as such reduce the knowledge-to-action gap.

The approach involves multi-level engagement, innovative methodologies, and novel data streams for the development of early warning and response systems, and assessment of costs and benefits of climate change adaptation and mitigation. More details about the novel framework, based on combined experience from the IDAlert consortium, can be read in the The Lancet article by Rockloev et al. (2023).