The Theory of Change Pillars
Epidemic Preparedness and Intelligence with a focus on Climate sensitive diseases
Addressing emerging health challenges through surveillance and research, particularly on climate-sensitive diseases
The challenge
The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated the importance of early detection and quick response to disease outbreaks
The interfaces between wildlife and humans are widespread, and local surveillance systems are under-resourced and remain disconnected from local, regional, and global response mechanisms
Climate change is increasing the risk of the rapid spread of (re) emerging pathogens, AMR to key medicines is becoming more widespread, and maternal and child mortality rates remain high in vulnerable countries
Role of the Pasteur Network
What?
We will focus on
1) emerging and re-emerging diseases which pose a risk of spreading (e.g., wildlife to human, human to human)
2) exogenous factors’ (e.g., climate change) related impact
How?
- Building infrastructure to enable faster sharing of samples and information across institutes of the Network
- Monitoring critical health indicators to influence public health policies on the effects of climate change, antimicrobial resistance effects, and MNCH
- Actively participate in the 100 days mission to accelerate epidemic preparedness and response
Related Work and Areas of Interest
Climate-Health observatories
Develop multi-disciplinary observatories monitoring the health impact of climate change to anticipate public health challenges & inform policy change