As anthropogenic climate change continues to escalate, its detrimental effects on human health are becoming pronounced, demanding urgent transformative actions from European policymakers. This policy brief, co-written by six pioneering research projects, including IDAlert, underscores the importance of protecting human health in the EU climate change policies and calls for increased engagement of legislators and policymakers to co-create evidence-based policies that effectively safeguard public health in the face of climate challenges.