SOLACE-AI: Synthesis of Online Literature for Adaptation to Climate-Change Emergencies

We will create SOLACE-AI, a tool to create real time evidence synthesis, to support policy and humanitarian responses to climate-change health emergencies. Our interdisciplinary and diverse team will co-create the system with policy makers, humanitarian organisations, experts in evidence synthesis, and impacted populations including in countries most affected by climate change. SOLACE-AI will be built on top of new technologies which we will create and evaluate. The system will consider scientific literature, and also critical non-research documents such as humanitarian reports, policy guidelines, impact assessments and local case studies. We will closely follow best practices in scientific evidence synthesis, and rigorously evaluate the accuracy of system components. We will evaluate the system in six, diverse case-studies—concrete, urgent problems which our collaborators are facing globally. We aim to drastically reduce the time, effort, and cost of producing evidence syntheses. The syntheses created by SOLACE-AI will be on-demand, always up-to-date, and could address problems, countries, and issues of health equity which have been too-often ignored. Getting high quality evidence into the hands of those facing and dealing with climate health problems could lead to better decision-making, and ultimately improve the lives of affected community residents.