Transforming Climate Science and Services for Health

This investment aims to transform climate science and services for health by creating a fit-for-purpose climate, environment, and health science-policy ecosystem that empowers and connects researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to use the best available information for climate informed health decisions. Specifically, this investment will: 1: Strengthen climate and health science and capacity at scale 2: Institutionalize climate and health science to policy engagement 3: Improve climate services awareness and knowledge brokering, targeting the health sector 4: Amplify extreme heat services, as an exemplar for co-produced climate health services Wellcome will be able to drive catalytic actions that support all of WMO’s 193 Members to better serve societal needs, by co-developing authoritative, accessible, and tailored information for the health community. The project will reinforce Wellcome investments in the World Health Organization, establish partnerships between climate and health partners, and immediately protect lives, by scaling extreme heat services as a pathbreaker for other climate and health priorities. In 4 years, we will have tested co-production approaches, set global norms, mitigated against harmful investments, and created a new generation of trained professionals with best-in-class technical support facilities dedicated to improving the climate resilience of communities and the health systems of the future.