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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

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Report on modelling of alternative adaptation interventions (opens in new window)
Approved TOR of Advisory Board (opens in new window)
Carbon emission assessment report (opens in new window)
Protocol for testing of the EWS among pregnant and postpartum women, and young children (opens in new window)
Study Initiation Package (opens in new window)

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.

Heat-health analysis report from Italian, Swedish and African data 1 (opens in new window)

Heat-health analysis report from Italian, Swedish and African data 2

Report on predictive heat warning thresholds (opens in new window)
Data management plan (year 1) (opens in new window)
stakeholder list (opens in new window)
Publication policy (opens in new window)
common dissemination and communication strategy for the cluster (opens in new window)
Dissemination, exploitation and communication plan and strategy (opens in new window)
Protocol and ethics approval for mitigation interventions evaluation (opens in new window)
Project management and quality management plan (opens in new window)
Environmental exposures in health facilities (opens in new window)
Approved TOR of Steering Committee (opens in new window)
Updated systematic review 1 (opens in new window)
Report on photo voice sub-study, and the locally-adapted and optimized messaging (opens in new window)

Publications

Vulnerable to heat stress: gaps in international standard metric thresholds (opens in new window)

Author(s): C. Brimicombe, C. Gao, I. M. Otto
Published in: International Journal of Biometeorology, 2024, ISSN 0020-7128
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-024-02783-6

A scoping review on heat indices used to measure the effects of heat on maternal and perinatal health (opens in new window)

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

Daily time series of 12 human thermal stress indices in Greece, aggregated at commune level (1998–2022) (opens in new window)

Author(s): Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, Chloe Brimicombe, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varbara Mouchtouri, Christos Hadjichristodoulou
Published in: Data in Brief, Issue 58, 2025, ISSN 2352-3409
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.DIB.2024.111264

Navigating the health frontiers of Africa’s climate challenge (opens in new window)

Author(s): Fortunate Machingura
Published in: Nature Medicine, 2024, ISSN 1546-170X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03061-z

A systematic review and meta-analysis of heat exposure impacts on maternal, fetal and neonatal health. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Lakhoo DP, Brink N, Radebe L, Craig MH, Pham MD, Haghighi MM, Wise A, Solarin I, Luchters S, Maimela G, Chersich MF; Heat-Health Study Group; HIGH Horizons Study Group
Published in: Nature Medicine, 2024, ISSN 1546-170X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41591-024-03395-8

How is maternal, newborn, and child health addressed in Heat Health Action Plans? A scoping review and content analysis (opens in new window)

Author(s): Alexandra Czerniewska, Chloe Brimicombe, Alejandro Saez Reale, Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Alyssa Sharkey, Anayda Portela
Published in: Journal of Global Health, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2047-2978
Publisher: International Society of Global Health
DOI: 10.7189/JOGH.15.04157

Preventing Heat-Related Deaths: The Urgent Need for a Global Early Warning System for Heat (opens in new window)

Author(s): Chloe Brimicombe, JD Runkle, C Tuholske C, DIV Domeisen, Chuansi Gao, Jorn Toftum and Ilona M Otto
Published in: PLOS Climate, 2024, ISSN 2767-3200
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000437

Effects of ambient heat exposure on risk of all-cause mortality in children younger than 5 years in Africa: a pooled time-series analysis (opens in new window)

Author(s): Chloe Brimicombe, Katharina Wieser, Tobias Monthaler, Debra Jackson, Jeroen De Bont, Matthew F Chersich, Ilona M Otto
Published in: The Lancet Planetary Health, 2024, ISSN 2542-5196
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00160-8

Impacts of heat exposure in utero on long-term health and social outcomes: a systematic review (opens in new window)

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

The influence of heat exposure on birth and neonatal outcomes in Mombasa, Kenya: a pooled time series analysis (opens in new window)

Author(s): Chloe Brimicombe, Debra Jackson, Aquinius Mungatia, Zeenat Sulaiman, Tobias Monthaler, Katharina Wieser, Ilona M Otto
Published in: The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2025, ISSN 2667-2782
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JOCLIM.2024.100409

Statistical Analysis Plan: Impact of Heat Stress on Healthcare Workers' Quality of Intrapartum Care (opens in new window)

Author(s): Gon Giorgia, Fardousi Nasser
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15874509

CARBOMICA: a carbon mitigation and resource allocation modelling tool for the healthcare sector in East Africa

Author(s): HIGH Horizons Consortium
Published in: COP28 Prospectus of Climate-Health Solutions, 2023
Publisher: WHO

Heat-health glossary (opens in new window)

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

HIGH Horizons - Protocol for Population-Level Heat-Health Impacts Study in Greece, Italy, Kenya, South Africa, and Sweden (opens in new window)

Author(s): Cherie Part, Chloe Brimicombe, Nathalie Roos, the HIGH Horizons Study Group
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10947995

HIGH Horizons - Conceptual framework of heat on health worker performance and quality of care (opens in new window)

Author(s): Lange Isabelle, Fardousi Nasser, Gon Giorgia, Filippi Veronique, HIGH Horizons Study Group
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.16946862

HIGH Horizons - User-friendly tool for heat-related risk assessment of the working environment in health facilities - CHECKLIST (opens in new window)

Author(s): Toftum J, for the HIGH Horizons Study Group
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14943973

Report of a scoping meeting for the selection of indicators to monitor the impact of extreme heat on maternal, newborn and child health, Geneva, Switzerland, 24-25 April 2023

Author(s): World Health Organization
Published in: 2024, ISBN 978-92-4-007983-0
Publisher: World Health Organization

Heat Health Warning Thresholds for Pregnant and Postpartum Women, Infants and Young Children and Health Workers (opens in new window)

Author(s): Chuansi Gao, Clara Heil, Chloe Brimicombe, Koen van der Sanden, Boris Kingma & Annie Portela
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12664206

The impact of extreme heat during pregnancy and childbirth in Johannesburg, South Africa (opens in new window)

Author(s): Chloe Brimicombe, Annika Sachs dos Santos, Ijeoma Solarin, Gloria Maimela, Matthew Cherish, Katharina Wieser, Ilona M. Otto
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-7581

" Beyond Ambient Temperature: A Comparative Analysis of Heat Metrics for Detecting Heatwaves on a Country Level" (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tobias Monthaler, Katharina Wieser, Chloe Brimicombe
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU24-8448

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