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Get to know the IDAlert project
IDAlert’s Framework for Climate-Resilient Health Systems
Decision support tools and early warning systems to help decision-makers to timely respond to the emergence and spread of climate-sensitive infectious diseases.
Infectious disease indicators
First four climate-sensitive infectious disease indicators that IDAlert has co-developed for the European context.
Case Study: Heidelberg, Germany
Learn more about Heidelberg as a case study within the IDAlert project.
Case Study: Rotterdam
Learn more about Rotterdam as a case study within the IDAlert project.
Case Study: Sweden
Learn more about Sweden as a case study within the IDAlert project.
👉 Download the Lancet Countdown Indicators
42 indicators highlighting the negative impacts of climate change on human health, the delayed climate action of European countries, and the missed opportunities to protect or improve health with health-responsive climate action.
👉 Discover IDAlert’s 6 hot spots
Six climate-emergence hotspots, with different ecological settings and climate-induced disease threats, have been chosen to evaluate, design and test the IDAlert decision-support tools.
👉 Mapping the needs of stakeholders
A co-creation workshop between national level and local level stakeholders was held where stakeholders’ wishes and unmet needs were mapped to craft the tools and services IDAlert will create during the project’s lifetime.
👉 The importance of Citizen Science
In the IDAlert project, citizen science contributes towards studying, monitoring and fighting the spread of invasive species of mosquitos and ticks capable of transmitting diseases.
Rollup
Poster
Capacity building
One Health and the Effects of Climate Adaptation on Health
IDAlert, in collaboration with the Pandemic and Disaster Preparedness Center (PDPC), the Department of Viroscience – Erasmus MC and One Health PACT, organised an international Summer School on “One Health and the Effects of Climate Adaptation on Health” from 12-16 August 2024 in Rotterdam.
In the media
👉 New tick species discovered in Sweden thanks to the Report Tick Program, featuring Anna Omazic (SVA) – read here
👉 How climate change is hitting Europe: three graphics reveal health impacts, Nature, featuring Rachel Lowe (BSC) – read here
👉 Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, The Guardian, featuring Rachel Lowe (BSC) – read here
👉 No breaks for ticks, even in winter months, featuring Anna Omazic (SVA) – read here
👉 Tropical diseases move north, Nature Outlook, featuring John Palmer & Frederic Bartumeus (Mosquito Alert) – read here
👉 Dengue Outbreaks in Spain: Interview with Tomás Montalvo (ASPB), El País, – read here (in Spanish)
👉 Climate change and disease, ioshmagazine.com, featuring Shouro Dasgupta (CMCC) – read here
👉 Are We Losing the Battle Against Mosquitoes? Kathimerini newspaper, featuring Dr. Antonios Michailakis, Head of the Laboratory of Insects & Parasites at the Benaki Phytopathological Institute – read here (in Greek)
Related resources
Climatic health bulletins
Our quarterly Climatic Health Bulletins are directed towards medical and health practitioners. They will share information on seasonal disease risk indicators in Europe.
The first bulletin is planned to be released during 2025.
