Decision-support tools to build climate resilience against emerging infectious diseases in Europe and beyond

The researchers  propose a framework for the co-production of policy-relevant indicators and decision-support tools that track past, present, and future climate-induced disease risks across hazard, exposure, and vulnerability domains at the animal, human, and environmental interface. The emergence, transmission, and geographic range expansion of infectious diseases are driven by global environmental change (including population mobility) and socio-political factors.

The researchers take advantage of intelligence generated locally and empirically to quantify effects in areas experiencing rapid urban transformation and heterogeneous climate-induced disease threats. Our goal is to reduce the knowledge-to-action gap by developing an integrated One Health—Climate Risk framework.