Abstract
This article summarises a recent virtual meeting organised by the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam on the topic of climate change and health, bringing local partners, faculty and external collaborators together from across the Wellcome and Oxford networks. Attendees included invited local and global climate scientists, clinicians, modelers, epidemiologists and community engagement practitioners, with a view to setting priorities, identifying synergies and fostering collaborations to help define the regional climate and health research agenda. In this summary paper, we outline the major themes and topics that were identified and what will be needed to take forward this research for the next decade. We aim to take a broad, collaborative approach to including climate science in our current portfolio where it touches on infectious diseases now, and more broadly in our future research directions. We will focus on strengthening our research portfolio on climate-sensitive diseases, and supplement this with high quality data obtained from internal studies and external collaborations, obtained by multiple methods, ranging from traditional epidemiology to innovative technology and artificial intelligence and community-led research. Through timely agenda setting and involvement of local stakeholders, we aim to help support and shape research into global heating and health in the region.
Highlights
At the end of 2021, more than 190 world leaders will attend the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow (UK), alongside thousands of other stakeholders
We aim to take a broad, collaborative approach to including climate science in our current portfolio where it touches on infectious diseases and more broadly in our future research directions
We will focus on strengthening our research portfolio on climate-sensitive diseases, and supplement this with high quality data obtained from internal studies and external collaborations, obtained by multiple methods, ranging from traditional epidemiology to innovative technology and artificial intelligence and community-led research
Summary
At the end of 2021, more than 190 world leaders will attend the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow (UK), alongside thousands of other stakeholders. Researchers in OUCRU-Vietnam have assembled one of the largest dengue syndromic databases in the world (monthly dengue cases in 273 provinces of 8 countries of southeast Asia over 18 years), and were able to define in great detail how high temperature drives the spatial hierarchy in dengue epidemics across the region[6] In addition to these modelling studies, OUCRU has a large translational programme of dengue research including clinical trials, innovative monitoring systems and pathogenesis studies, as well as investigations into the susceptibility of mosquitoes to dengue virus under various environmental conditions and manipulated treatment. OUCRU and MORU research units together have an extensive network of over 100 clinical trial sites across 11 Asian countries (Figure 1) With this infrastructure in place, we plan for the five years to systematically capture the changes in disease burden and disease patterns, as well as climate related data. Through timely agenda setting and involvement of local stakeholders, we aim to help support and shape research into global heating and health in the region
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