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Workshop & scientific exchange

Expanding the HDSS approach

23–27 September 2024

Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

The Heidelberg workshop explored how established health and demographic surveillance can support climate-health research. Researchers exchanged experience on CHEERS infrastructure, linked measurements, disease burden and locally relevant adaptation.

Scientific focus

Scientific focus

  • Extending HDSS platforms through CHEERS
  • Linking climate exposure with population-health observations
  • Climate-sensitive diseases and mental health
  • Adaptation research and collaborative study development

Programme overview

Programme

The original programme advertises 23–27 September. Detailed scientific sessions cover 23–25 September and individual meetings 26 September; no separate 27 September session is specified. Listed contributions follow the programme and are not a verified attendance record. The approved photograph confirms the event on 23 September.

23 September 2024

CHEERS infrastructure and climate-health attribution

  • Nouna and SEACO experience in extending population surveillance.
  • Review of the HDSS manual and discussion of scientific-network development.
  • Climate-model linkage, attribution, disease-burden measurement and policy relevance.
  • Technical infrastructure for CHEERS in Nouna.

24 September 2024

Adaptation and interventions

  • Heat to Harvest, physiological research and remote-sensing integration.
  • Cool roofs, cross-ventilation and weather-based crop insurance.
  • Behavioural adaptation evidence and HEAT-CARES.

25 September 2024

Climate-sensitive health and collaboration

  • Cardiovascular research in SEACO, heat and HIV in Siaya, and respiratory research in Nouna.
  • Heat-related mental health and integration of mental-health measures within HDSS.
  • Research opportunities, collaborative proposal ideas and next steps.

26 September 2024

Individual research meetings

  • The programme reserved this day for individual meetings.

Researchers & contributions

Researchers and contributions

Links lead to current researcher profiles. Event-specific labels describe the documented contribution or programme status.

Portrait of Prof Rainer Sauerborn

Scheduled programme contributor

Prof Rainer Sauerborn ↗

Scheduled welcome and contributions on climate-attributable disease burden and policy relevance.

Heidelberg University · Heidelberg Institute of Global Health

Portrait of Dr Ali Sié

Scheduled programme contributor

Dr Ali Sié ↗

Scheduled presenter on extending Nouna HDSS through CHEERS.

Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna (CRSN) · National Institute of Public Health, Burkina Faso

Portrait of Prof Tin Tin Su

Scheduled programme contributor

Prof Tin Tin Su ↗

Scheduled contributions on SEACO, HEAT-CARES and integration of mental-health research.

Monash University Malaysia

Portrait of Dr Sandra Barteit

Scheduled programme contributor

Dr Sandra Barteit ↗

Scheduled contributions on climate attribution, scientific-network development and collaborative proposal design.

Heidelberg Institute of Global Health · Heidelberg University Hospital

Portrait of Prof Osman Sankoh

Scheduled programme contributor

Prof Osman Sankoh ↗

Scheduled contribution on proposal opportunities.

Centre for Health Research and Training (CHaRT–Sierra Leone)

Additional programme / report contributors

Additional named scientific contributors in the working programme. Programme entries describe scheduled roles, rather than verified attendance. Historical programme names are retained as published and do not indicate current CHEERS Network membership.

Pascal Zabré; Kristine Belesova; Klaus Blass; Valentin Boudo; Aristide Ouédraogo; Maximilian Schwarz; Martina Anna Maggioni; Till Bärnighausen; Daniel Kwaro; Edmund Yeboah; Hamimatunnisa Johar; Jahan Nowrozy; Robin Simion; Nour Kassem; Perla Boutros; Julia Corvetto.

Research connections

Research connections

Sites & partners

HeidelbergNounaSEACO / SegamatSiaya

Projects discussed or connected

Population cohorts / CP1Heat to HarvestHeat-CARES / Heat Care at SEACOCool roofsWeather, heat & HIVHeat & respiratory health

Tools & methods

Wearable biosensorsSatellite remote sensingHealth assessment & spirometryDigital surveys & self-reported health

Sources & record

Sources and documentation

The original programme advertises 23–27 September. Detailed scientific sessions cover 23–25 September and individual meetings 26 September; no separate 27 September session is specified. Listed contributions follow the programme and are not a verified attendance record. The approved photograph confirms the event on 23 September.

Review date: 12 November 2026. Suggest a correction or contribute an event record ↗

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