The Belmont Forum is pleased to announce the awards of a new multilateral and transdisciplinary Collaborative Research Action on Climate, Environment and Health.

The call aims to foster global transdisciplinary research teams of natural (including climate), health and social scientists and stakeholders from across the globe to improve understanding of climate, environment and health pathways to protect and promote health. The projects will thus provide crucial new understanding into the health implications arising from the impacts of climate change and variability on; 1) the quality/quantity of food, 2) chronic exposure to increases/changes in heat and humidity and 3) changes in the distribution and incidence of a range of infectious diseases and emergence of novel pathogens. Increasing knowledge of the complex linkages and pathways between the climate, environment and health is vital to inform and support effective policy and decision-making.

“The Belmont Forum is excited to include and highlight health as part of its transdisciplinary portfolio. These projects will contribute strongly to the growing climate-environment-health community.  The knowledge, tools, and action these research teams will create is so timely and critical to a more resilient future,” shared Erica Key, the Belmont Forum Secretariat Director.

A total of 13 funders from 10 countries have committed circa €12m of cash and in-kind resources for this Climate, Environment and Health Collaborative Research Action and a total of 59 eligible teams of researchers submitted applications to the call. Following the recommendations of an international panel of experts, the Belmont Forum partners agreed to fund nine research teams involving 69 researchers from 20 countries. The teams will be conducting research throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Arctic and Europe (and in one instance at a global scale) over the next 3-4 years.

Awarded projects:

The Natural Environmental Research Council, UK Research and Innovation (NERC, UKRI) managed the delivery of this call on behalf of the Belmont Forum partners/member countries (detailed below).