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Partnership

Health and Climate Partnership for Africa Using Meteorological Information to Mitigate Health Epidemics (Contribution to HE-06-03). World Health Organization International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Centre de Recherche Médicale et Sanitaire (CERMES), Niger

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Partnership

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  1. Health and Climate Partnership for AfricaUsing Meteorological Information to Mitigate Health Epidemics(Contribution to HE-06-03)

  2. World Health Organization International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Centre de Recherche Médicale et Sanitaire (CERMES), Niger National Meteorological and Hydrological Services African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD), Niger AGRHYMET Regional Centre, Niger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), UK Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement (IRD), France Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), UK Météo France, France National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA University of Liverpool (UofL), UK US Environmental Protection Agency Partnership • WHO Multi Disease Surveillance Centre (MDSC), Burkina Faso (Overall Coordination and Health Component) • International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), USA(Partnership Facilitator) • World Meteorological Organization (Meteorological Coordination) WMO Presentation

  3. The Partnership Aims To: • Strengthen the cooperation between health and meteorological services at both the national and international levels • To reduce the risk of epidemic diseases in the Sahel; • To improve routine rural and urban health care for weather- and climate sensitive diseases; • To increase capacity in the operational/research weather, climate and health communities to serve national development agendas through reduction in risk associated with weather- and climate-related health hazards. WMO Presentation

  4. Organizational and Operational Activities • Establish a Community of Practice to engage local communities in the partnership • Develop Implementation Plan • Review existing Health- weather/climate relationships for West Africa to determine social impact of providing more timely warnings of epidemics Gary Foley, US EPA WMO Presentation

  5. Organizational and Operational Activities • Develop training materials for health and meteorological communities • Identify the needs of operational public health community in West Africa for weather and climate information • Establish a health requirements process WMO Presentation

  6. Organizational and Operational Activities • Determine the adequacy of the current institutional mechanisms: • To deliver health-climate information to decision-makers; • To deliver information to the public; and • To share information between the climate and health communities Limites climatiques de la zone d’épidémies de paludisme WMO Presentation

  7. Organizational and Operational Activities • Review the adequacy of current early warning system for food security and investigate opportunities for synergy between this system and a health early warning system WMO Presentation

  8. Research and Development Activities • Partnership will focus on Malaria, meningitis and other climate sensitive diseases (e.g. Cholera) • Emphasis on detection and prevention • Better understanding of relationship between near real-time observed environmental parameters and health outcomes Fanjasoa RAKOTOMANANA Nonhyperendemic Hyperendemic: LSTmx:31.5-34.5°C & Dist riv<=2km & Elevation:700-1150m 50 km 0 WMO Presentation

  9. Research and Development Activities • Observations of key basic meteorological parameters • AMMA to understand limitations of the current observations • GCOS to reactivate silent networks • Test the utility of synthetic gridded products from irregular and incomplete data • Partnership will focus on link between climate impacts (investigations underway elsewhere) and specific health applications • Downscale seasonal forecasts to a geographical region relevant to health outcomes • Need to exploit probabilistic forecasts for low latitudes • Improve understanding of inter-seasonal variability (through WCRP) WMO Presentation

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