SPRINGS project
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SPRINGS, a #HorizonEU project that Supports #Policy Regulations and Interventions to Negate aggravated Global #diarrheal #disease due to future #climate Shocks 👉 springsproject.eu
🌍 How can climate projections become useful for local planning? @brasmus.bsky.social explains how the SPRINGS weather generator creates realistic daily weather data from climate projections to support climate adaptation. Read more: bit.ly/3TynxN3 #SPRINGSProject
🌡️ Western Europe just had its hottest June on record. 1,300+ excess deaths linked since late June (WHO). WHO's Pan-European Commission just released 17 climate-health recommendations. 📋 bit.ly/3RIOXix #ClimateHealth #Europe #PublicHealth #ClimateAction #WHO
Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health: Call to Action
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🌎 El Niño preparedness is back on the health agenda. PAHO's new analysis flags cholera, waterborne & vector-borne disease risks across the Americas through 2026–2027. 756 hospitals face flooding exposure. 🔎 bit.ly/4yEQ4At #ClimateHealth #ElNino #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #Preparedness
PAHO publishes analysis on the potential health impacts of the El Niño phenomenon in the Americas
Washington, D.C., 7 July 2026 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has published a new Public Health Situation Analysis on the El Niño climate event (2026–2027), which examines the pot...
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📣 New from our coordinator Vanessa Harris: oral polio & rotavirus vaccines protect up to 98% of kids in rich countries, but as little as 45% in parts of Africa & Asia. New Cell Host & Microbe paper explains why and what might close the gap. 🔗 👉 bit.ly/3TdL3Pf
💧 EEA: water scarcity hit 28% of EU land in 2023, Romania & Italy among the hardest hit. Abstraction is down 14% since 2000, but scarcity hasn't eased, and climate change makes improvement in 2030 unlikely. Exactly why SPRINGS builds climate-resilient water safety plans. bit.ly/4w4m52F
Europe is warming faster than any other continent. Adaptation is not keeping pace. New today: an interactive platform on extreme weather, a report on adaptation policies across 32 countries, and a briefing on small municipalities leading the way: www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...
Climate-driven diarrhoeal disease is not inevitable 💪 Research connects the dots: extreme weather 🌩️, water systems 💧, vulnerable communities. Evidence turns into policy. Policy protects children. #BreakTheLoop 🔄 All the content lives here bit.ly/4tJGrOj #ThePoopLoop #PublicHealthResearch
1 in 4 people still lack safe drinking water 💧 Climate change is making it harder — floods contaminate, droughts dry up sources. The gap is growing. 👉 bit.ly/4tJGrOj #BreakTheLoop 🔂 Support global water and sanitation efforts. #ThePoopLoop #WaterAccess #ClimateAndHealth
Floods. Droughts. Unreliable treatment. When water safety is uncertain, one action matters most. Bring it to a rolling boil for one minute. Cool it. Store it covered. Not a fix for broken infrastructure, but it can save lives. 👉 bit.ly/4tJGrOj #BreakTheLoop #ThePoopLoop #WaterSafety
Unusually warm weather in #Europe, this early in the year. The 2023 IPCC Synthesis Report showed that every increment of warming brings escalating hazards, including risks to water safety and waterborne disease. At SPRINGS, that's what we study 🔗 springsproject.eu IPCC Report 2023: bit.ly/3PEsYIL
Diarrhoeal disease isn't just a few bad days. Frequent infections in early childhood 👧 can impair growth, weaken immunity, and limit life chances. Climate change is making it harder to prevent. 🔂 #BreakTheLoop 👉 bit.ly/4tJGrOj #ThePoopLoop #ChildHealth #ClimateAndHealth
From 5-8 May, the SPRINGS consortium gathered in Bucharest for our 3rd General Assembly 🇷🇴 Four days of partner sessions, PhD presentations, student workshops, and stakeholder meetings as we hit the halfway point of the project. Want the full story? 👉 bit.ly/49I2Nrf #SPRINGSProject #EUResearch
The 3rd General Assembly of the SPRINGS project wrapped up in Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴 (5–8 May). A key milestone as the project hits the halfway point. 🧵 Great to see the full consortium together again. #SPRINGSProject #GeneralAssembly #EUResearch
#Floods and #droughts don't just disrupt daily life; they mobilise contamination. Overwhelmed sanitation. Pathogens in shrinking water sources. Unsafe alternatives. Extreme weather is a delivery system for #WaterborneDisease. Another axis of the loop bit.ly/4tJGrOj #BreakTheLoop #ThePoopLoop
The way we live pushes the planet past its limits and those limits exist for a reason. Crossing #PlanetaryBoundaries makes water, food, and climate less stable. That means more extreme weather, and more risk of #DiarrhoealDisease for the world's most vulnerable. ⤵️ bit.ly/4tJGrOj #BreakTheLoop
#DiarrhoealDisease is still one of the top killers of children under five and #ClimateChange is making it harder to stop. Unsafe water, sanitation failures, extreme weather feed each other. That's the loop. 👉 bit.ly/4tJGrOj #BreakTheLoop, because no child should die from unsafe water. #ThePoopLoop
Earth Day is about the state of our planet, its water systems, its ecosystems, its shifting climate. At SPRINGS, we study what those shifts mean further down the chain: for water quality, for pathogens, for disease. A changing Earth changes health outcomes. 🔗 springsproject.eu #EarthDay2026
In January 2026, parts of Southern Africa received a full year's worth of rain in just 10 days. What followed was not just a flood emergency. It was a climate-health cascade. 🧵👇
Do you want to help tackle the impacts of climate change on public health? 🌍 💙 @planeoproject.bsky.social is looking for a Research Data Analyst to work at the intersection of climate, data and infectious diseases. 👉 Learn more: bit.ly/4dAOMP6 jmcolston.bsky.social #ClimateHealth #ResearchJobs
What if doctors could see inside your body without ever making a cut? Science made it real. X-ray, CT scan, MRI and ultrasound! Today these non-invasive visualizations of our bodies are a lifesaver. This #WorldHealthDay: Together for Health #StandWithScience 💙
#WaterborneDiseases remain a major health risk, and climate change is making them harder to predict. Science helps us track water quality and anticipate how pathogens spread. This #WorldHealthDay, stand with science to protect health. #StandWithScience 💙
In our #MeetOurPeople series, Christian Damgaard & Peter Borgen ( #AarhusUniversity ) share how statistical modelling helps uncover where and why #DiarrhoealDisease affects children, and how climate factors shape these risks. ▶️ Watch to learn more about their work in SPRINGS.
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As part of the Planetary Health Cluster, SPRINGS contributes to a new policy brief calling for stronger public understanding and preventive action on environmental health risks. Read it here: bit.ly/4qGEhML #PlanetaryHealth #ClimateAndHealth #PublicHealth #OneHealth #HorizonEurope #PolicyBrief
🌍 Climate resilience is not a cost. It is a competitiveness strategy. Extreme weather already costs Europe €40–50bn every year 📉. Investing in resilient 🌾 agriculture, ⚡ energy and 🚧 transport avoids far greater losses and strengthens long-term competitiveness 💶📊. www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...
Keeping children safe from climate-driven diarrhoeal disease means acting on many fronts: #water 💧, #health ⚕️, #agriculture 🌾, #UrbanPlanning 🏢, and social support. SPRINGS maps adaptation #interventions & how they reduce risks. 📊 Full document: bit.ly/3NCMZhg
Childhood #DiarrhoealDisease has declined, but #ClimateChange threatens progress. #Adaptation actions exist across sectors, yet are rarely seen together. SPRINGS maps these interventions to reduce climate-sensitive diarrhoeal risk. Article: bit.ly/4qFSHgw Deliverable: bit.ly/4qLQCjf
As the year ends, we’re looking back at SPRINGS’ journey from plans to action in 🇬🇭🇹🇿🇮🇹🇷🇴. Together, we’re tackling water-related health risks & climate change to protect the most vulnerable. 💧🌡️ Thank you to our partners! Onward to 2026. 🥂🚀 #ClimateHealth #SPRINGSProject
Data gaps remain a major challenge in #ClimateHealth research. @planeoproject.bsky.social bridges climate & disease data to model where enteric pathogens may be circulating today. With SPRINGS, this work now extends toward future climate scenarios. 👉 bit.ly/49hxQtd