The Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) is an independent, member-driven forum of scientists, practitioners, and policy makers focused on improving capacity to protect populations from the avoidable health risks of extreme heat in a changing climate.
The Network was launched in 2016 by experts from over a dozen founding institutions, spearheaded by the World Health Organization and World Meteorological Organization Joint Office for Climate and Health, and the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Program Office.
The vision of the network is to improve the capacity of professionals, organizations, and governments to protect populations from the preventable health impacts of extreme ambient heat, and this by:
- Creating a common space to promote evidence-driven interventions, shared-learning, co-production of information, synthesis of priorities, and capacity building that can empower multi-disciplinary actors to take more effective and informed life-saving preparedness and planning measures.
- Being a catalyst, knowledge broker and forum for facilitating exchange and identifying needs of the most vulnerable
The activities and programmes of the network help improve the capacity of governments, organizations, and professionals to protect populations from the avoidable health risks of extreme ambient heat. Members and the wider public benefit from ongoing activities, including:
- Biannual Global Forum on Heat and Health
- News, information and knowledge on Heat Health via our online platform, including inventories of Heat Health Action Plans and case studies
- Country profiles
- Global Synthesis Reports on Heat Health
- Learning exchanges
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