Climate-Smart Public Health: A blueprint for resilient health systems

This article can help you to better understand how climate change impacts people’s health and address the current silos embedded in climate, environmental, and public health monitoring and surveillance systems. It introduces the concept of Climate-Smart Public Health (CSPH), a data-driven framework designed to monitor, assess, and adapt to climate-related health impacts, and provides a tangible, scalable blueprint that governments can adopt or adapt to create operational solutions for climate-resilient health systems. CSPH incorporates surveillance, risk assessment, early warning systems, and resilient healthcare infrastructure and introduces innovations that empower policymakers and healthcare professionals with data-driven decision-making.

Though intended for government officials and policymakers, this resource can help sustainability professionals to better understand and support positive health outcomes within the context of climate-related stressors.