GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals must choose and address one of the following areas of research:

• Research on the relationships between changes in environmental hazards caused by climate change, the impacts on interrelated ecosystems and their influence on human health;
• Climate induced emergence and transmission of pathogens and spread of zoonotic pathogens using Eco-health and One Health approaches.

Proposals should include all of the following activities:

• Development of suitable indicators and monitoring mechanisms to assess the health-relevant outcomes of climate policies and actions;
• Development of predictive models and early warning systems for exposure and health impacts of climate change based on transparent assumptions and architecture;
• Development of tools for health impact and cost-benefit assessment of climate-change adaptation and mitigation measures;
• Investigation of health co-benefits of adaptation and mitigation policy measures outside the health sector;
• Demonstration of the validity of tools and methods developed in the above listed activities in policy-relevant case studies;
• Determination of the societal implications of climate change on health systems, including occupational health, and development of adaptation measures;
• Development of training materials and guidelines to educate relevant actors in citizens’ daily life on climate change health impacts and to facilitate adaptation of health systems and practices;
• Delivery of FAIR] data on positive and negative health impacts of climate change, including impact on groups at higher risk or vulnerability.