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Health and health facilities

Capacity of health systems to anticipate, mitigate and manage situations arising from natural and man-made hazards, including biological hazards.

Across Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon, a joint UN programme is already delivering results by strengthening migrant-inclusive health systems through a single, coordinated approach.

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AI-enabled mental-health interventions for climate-related distress: a call for coordinated EU policy action
Documents and publications

This brief assesses the emerging intersection between climate change, mental health challenges, and artificial intelligence tools across Europe

United Nations University (UNU)
Burial team during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, 2015
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The outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda is caused by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus, which has no approved vaccines, treatments or rapid diagnostics.

Wellcome Trust
Timor-Leste - Rising risks, resilient futures: Climate and health vulnerability assessment thumbnail
Documents and publications

The Climate and Health Vulnerability Assessment provides an evidence base to guide climate-resilient health investments. It integrates climate modeling, geospatial exposure mapping, and disease burden analysis and economic projections

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Unpacking climate change and health nexus in Bangladesh
Documents and publications

This working paper offers a timely and in-depth exploration of the climate-health nexus, specifically focusing on the context of Bangladesh as this country faces some of the world’s highest global climate risks.

United Nations University (UNU)
Burial team during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, 2015
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As the news spread about the outbreak of Ebola in mid-May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report about pandemics. The title was: A World on the Edge: Priorities for a Pandemic-Resilient Future.

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Research briefs

Across the world, air pollution is associated with more early deaths than any other environmental exposure, raising risks of dying from lung cancer, respiratory infection, heart and lung disease and other causes.

Conversation Media Group, the
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Heat waves are striking in surprising places where milder temperatures were once the norm

American Association of Retired Persons
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The latest case of a Canadian passenger testing positive shows the hantavirus outbreak isn’t over yet. We can probably expect more cases, given the long incubation period of this infection.

Conversation Media Group, the
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