TACTIC – HealTh ImpAct ToolkIt for Climate Change Attribution

TACTIC will develop a living digital toolkit to facilitate research illuminating attributable health impacts of climate change. The toolkit will be co-produced with key stakeholders and informed by communities facing climate-driven health impacts. Organized in hubs and deployed in a website platform, our toolkit will deliver up-to-date data, didactic methodological resources, and additional information to support researchers and other stakeholders in conducting health attribution studies. We will furnish the toolkit with new evidence and methods refined by the project team on understudied policy-relevant research questions (i.e., contribution of individual emitters, impact of emission pathways and overshoot scenarios, comparison of attribution methods, development of policy-relevant health indicators) in climate change hotspots (i.e., Southern Africa, the Andes, and the Mediterranean). We will conduct a series of case studies, of high priority to local decision-makers and communities, on neglected health outcomes and their unequal impact (e.g., climate-sensitive infectious diseases, kidney disease, mental health, maternal health). We will develop communication guidelines and policy-relevant insights on the health burden of climate change to improve science-to-policy translation and maximize the impact of the findings. The TACTIC toolkit will boost capacity building in low resource settings and advance knowledge and awareness on climate change impacts on health.