Category: News

Weather and disease: closer than we think – Opinion Article

For a long time, people have known that our natural environment and climate affects the spread of disease. Before germ theory, western medicine blamed damp, bad air for generating diseases like smallpox and plague. Wetness and heat, coldness and dryness and the balance between them were the source of all ills. With advancements in medicine, technology and research, we now understand that weather doesn’t create disease out of thin air, but does have a crucial role in their spread.

Conference on Connecting Health and Climate Change

Conference on Connecting Health and Climate Change: the hybrid conference is organized by ENBEL – Enhancing Belmont Research Action to support EU policy-making on climate change and health.

How do we mitigate against the health concerns from sandfly borne diseases due to climate change?

The Forecasting, Early Warning System and Tools partners organised the first foresight consortium workshop using the STEEPED framework to uncover “Which Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Ethical and Demographic dimensions are likely to affect the use of the Early Warning System by stakeholders?”. It was held online on the 5th of April 2023.

CLIMOS Haifa meeting on Sand Flies and Sand Fly-Born Diseases data modelling

The Forecasting, Early Warning System and Tools partners met in the University of Haifa, between 13 and 14 of March 2023, where they discussed and agreed on methodological approaches to sand fly presence and numbers and sand fly borne diseases modelling and projections.

The usage of Early Warning Systems is fundamental for our well being

According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, an Early Warning System (EWS) is “an integrated system of hazard monitoring, forecasting and prediction, disaster risk assessment, communication and preparedness activities systems and processes that enables individuals, communities, governments, businesses and others to take timely action to reduce disaster risks in advance of hazardous events” (UNDRR, 2023).

CLIMOS project – perspective of a medical entomologist – Opinion Article

The CLIMOS project (Climate Monitoring and Decision Support Framework for Sand Fly-borne Diseases Detection and Mitigation) puts under a spotlight phlebotomine sand flies – small, hairy dipterans that may seem like an unlikely candidate to attract a focused effort of a research consortium comprised of 29 partners that will pursue the project aims for next three years in many European and adjacent countries.

What is the CLIMOS project, and what is the need behind it – Opinion Article

The CLIMOS (full title: Climate Monitoring and Decision Support Framework for Sand Fly-borne Diseases Detection and Mitigation) project is a transdisciplinary and multisectoral collaboration that aims at providing new knowledge, tools and solutions for mitigation and adaptation of human and veterinary health sectors to challenges of climate change, cantered around the model of how climate affects the spread of the sand fly-borne diseases, their vectors, and pathogens.

CLIMOS Project was represented in the 125th OGC Member Meeting in Frascati, Italy

CLIMOS was presented during the OGC panel “The Climate for Good Health may be Changing” hosted at the European Space Agency – ESA by Nenad Gligoric, from Zentrix Lab, and Nils Hempelmann, from The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), both partners of the CLIMOS project.

From the Classroom to the Lab: Encouraging Young Women to Pursue STEM Careers

CLIMOS completed the first deliverable which reflects the planned communication and dissemination activities of the project.

CLIMOS submitted one of its first deliverables

CLIMOS completed the first deliverable which reflects the planned communication and dissemination activities of the project.