Established research platform
Population cohorts / CP1 ↗
Lead Scientist and Co-Principal Investigator
Connecting long-term population follow-up with the measurements needed to investigate climate and health.
Role / research source ↗Network contributor · Germany
Dr Sandra Barteit
Digital Global Health Working Group Lead
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health · Heidelberg University Hospital
Digital global healthClimate & health dataWearable monitoring
Scientific background & experience
Biography
Digital global health
Sandra Barteit leads the Digital Global Health Working Group at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital. Her research brings together wearable measurements, environmental monitoring and computational methods to examine how climate-related exposures affect health in settings with limited research infrastructure. She also coordinates the Global Health Elective Track at Heidelberg’s Faculty of Medicine. 1
Research infrastructure
Her work includes the development of population-health cohorts in Burkina Faso and Kenya, where she is identified as CP1 Lead Scientist and Co-Principal Investigator. She leads PULSE-AI, a Carl Zeiss Foundation Nexus group established in October 2023, which investigates how graph databases and artificial intelligence can connect heterogeneous climate and health observations. These are research methods intended to improve evidence for public-health decisions. 3, 4
Training and collaboration
Barteit’s academic training spans computational linguistics at Heidelberg, a doctorate in Global Health at Heidelberg, analytics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and innovation and entrepreneurship at HEC Paris. Her collaborative portfolio also includes community heat-adaptation research in Malaysia and technical exchange on locally manufactured weather stations. She is a coauthor of the published CHEERS framework and the Heat to Harvest study protocol. 1, 5, 2, 6
Developing research collaborations
Her current research portfolio also includes preparation of the Belém wearable and environmental pilot and Heidelberg coordination of REFRAME, a distinct Horizon Europe collaboration in grant preparation with a planned January 2027 start. These developing activities draw on earlier sensor-based field research while addressing new settings and questions.
Projects & research connections
Projects and research contributions
Research programme · 2023–2028
PULSE-AI ↗
Research Group Lead / Principal Investigator
Using graph databases and AI to investigate complex relationships between climate exposure and health.
Role / research source ↗Wellcome-funded adaptation research
Heat-CARES / Heat Care at SEACO ↗
Research collaborator listed on the project team
Community-informed heat literacy and cool-roof research, supported by environmental and physiological monitoring.
Role / research source ↗Published study protocol
Heat to Harvest ↗
Study-protocol corresponding author
Investigating the pathway from heat exposure to farmer health, work capacity, crop yields and nutrition.
Role / research source ↗Documented workshops and field development
Locally built weather stations ↗
Lead of the December 2025 KEMRI weather-station workshop
Sharing practical experience in building, deploying and maintaining low-cost 3D-printed weather stations.
Role / research source ↗Field collection complete; analysis ongoing
CHIMES & CHIMES 2.0 ↗
Protocol coauthor and Monash–HIGH research collaborator
Linking weather, household conditions and wearable observations to respiratory and cardiovascular health.
Role / research source ↗Published study protocol
Weather, heat & HIV ↗
Study correspondence and research enquiries, HIGH
Combining wearable monitoring with surveys and lived experience among people with and without HIV.
Role / research source ↗Completed development contribution
WHO/TDR learning module ↗
Climate-health module-development project contact
Contributing climate and health content to implementation-research learning for teams and institutions.
Role / research source ↗EU grant preparation · Planned 2027–2030
REFRAME ↗
Heidelberg research coordination
A forthcoming multicountry collaboration on climate, livelihoods, food insecurity, mental health and community preparedness.
Role / research source ↗Pilot in preparation
Belém wearable & environment pilot ↗
Wearable and environmental methods · Pilot collaboration
Preparing linked wearable and household environmental measurements with local research partners in Belém.
Role / research source ↗Connected research settings
Heidelberg ↗Authored publications
Selected publications
These selected papers list Dr Sandra Barteit as an author. Labels distinguish the CHEERS and connected-research library from selected wider scholarship.
2023Authored publication · Reviewed collectionMethods
Widening the lens of population-based health research to climate change impacts and adaptation: the climate change and health evaluation and response system (CHEERS) ↗
Introduces the modular CHEERS framework linking population surveillance, environmental measurements and individual health data.
2023Authored publication · Reviewed collectionStudy protocol
Developing Climate Change and Health Impact Monitoring with eHealth at the South East Asia Community Observatory and Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Malaysia (CHIMES) ↗
CHIMES evaluates the feasibility of sensor-based climate and health research at SEACO, including asthma and COPD.
2025Authored publication · Reviewed collectionStudy protocol
Assessing heat exposure and its effects on farmer health, harvest yields, and nutrition: a study protocol for Burkina Faso and Kenya ↗
Heat to Harvest studies the pathway from heat exposure through work capacity and crop yields to child nutrition.
2026Authored publication · Reviewed collectionData architecture
Design and Implementation of a Knowledge Graph for Integrating Global Health Data Using Neo4j ↗
Shows how Nouna population, weather, wearable and indoor climate datasets can be linked in a knowledge graph.
2025Authored publication · Reviewed collectionStudy protocol
Wearable device monitoring of HIV health in the face of climate change and weather exposures: protocol for a mixed-methods study ↗
Plans wearable and survey research on weather exposure and health among people with and without HIV.
2023Authored publication · Reviewed collectionObservational study
Assessing the Effect of Extreme Weather on Population Health Using Consumer-Grade Wearables in Rural Burkina Faso: Observational Panel Study ↗
Examines associations between extreme weather and individual wearable measurements in Nouna.
View 28 authored publications in the website library ↗
This is a selected research bibliography. The institutional profile provides further information about the researcher’s work.
Profile references
Sources and updates
- Institutional profile ↗
- Published research ↗
- Supporting source 3 ↗
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- Published research ↗
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Profile reviewed 12 November 2026. Suggest an update ↗
Further research
Sandra Barteit · Institutional research profile ↗Network resources & exchange