Active Climate, Earth & Environment Public Health & Healthcare

Accessible and understandable data and research to make progress against global mental health challenges, the health impact of climate change, and infectious diseases

Funder Wellcome Charity-funded
Associated organisations Global Change Data Lab · IND Fiona Spooner 281655 · IND Saloni Nilesh Dattani 281636 Europe PMC affiliations are not treated as award recipients or mapped locations.
Funding £3.4M
Period Nov 2023 — Nov 2030

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Good data on global health exists, but it is locked away in inaccessible databases and buried under academic jargon that key decision-makers cannot understand. The project expands the online publication *Our World in Data*—already cited around 100,000 times in major media and reaching half a billion pageviews in four years—to fix this. An interdisciplinary team of global health, climate science, and development experts will work with data scientists, designers, and web developers to make the best available research on emerging infectious diseases, mental health, and climate change’s health impacts genuinely accessible. If successful, this will give policymakers, journalists, and the public a clear, usable picture of the evidence they need to act. The project does not generate new scientific findings; it translates existing ones into a form that can actually inform decisions, from local public health responses to international funding priorities.

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Emerging infectious diseases, millions of people suffering from mental health challenges, and the health impacts of climate change — the world today faces large global health challenges. To make progress against these global problems we need to be informed by the best data and research. This data and research exists, but it is neither accessible nor understandable. It is buried in inaccessible databases and presented in academic jargon that is often incomprehensible to key decision-makers. The goal of this project is to change this. We are proposing to expand the successful online publication Our World in Data. The publication is already widely used — in the last 4 years our work was cited around 100,000 times in large media outlets and we reached half a billion pageviews. But the current publication can be expanded along several key global health topics. We are proposing an interdisciplinary project in which experts in global health, climate science, and development research work with researchers, data scientists, designers, and web developers to make the data and research on the large global health challenges accessible and understandable to the broader public and key decision makers.

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Researchers

Fiona Spooner (EPMC Awardee)Max Roser (EPMC Awardee)Saloni Dattani (EPMC Awardee)

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