The Climate and Health Risk Index: Tracking climate change risk to health across national and subnational levels to prioritize adaptation investment

The purpose of the Climate and Health Risk Index (CHRI) is to improve how climate change and health resources are invested. Over repeated measurement, it identifies how risk is shifting across geographies and time, keeping up with steadily deepening data on hazards relevant to climate-sensitive health issues and improving adaptive capacity due to public and private investment.

Prior to in-depth assessments, it determines the spatial distribution of risk, screens for areas to focus diagnostic resources, and assists in advocacy for adaptation and resilience spending in the health sector. It also presents a comprehensive view of risk to human health across climate change stressors and extreme events (shocks), complementing indices focusing on child health, disaster and humanitarian crisis, and other sub-domains.