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Resilient and Equitable Health Workforce to Address Climate Threats. A partnership between CESHHAR, Zimbabwe, LSTM, UK, and HERD International, Nepal. NIHR funded. reactconsortium.com

The masthead of the REACT newsletter showing the logo, a welcome message and a photo of a smiling group of Nepali enumerator trainees
A Nepalese woman sits speaking to the camera with the words 'REACT Consortium aims to strengthen...'
A multicoloured 'C' going from blue at the bottom to red at the top and indicating rising temperatures. Also the words 'Introducing REACT - resilient and Equitable Health Workforce to Address Climate Threats'
A group of standing and seated smiling Nepali men and women - the trainees successfully finished their training sessions
REACT logo and the words 'strengthen the responsiveness of the health workforce against health impacts of climate crisis in Nepal and Zimbabwe.'
Climate change in Nepal and its impact Nepal is the twelfth most climate-vulnerable country in the world. It is experiencing changes in both its weather patterns and extreme weather events. Impacts include: • Weather-related disasters: Nepal is subject to heavy rainfall, floods, landslides, forest fires, cold temperature waves, thunderbolts, windstorms and epidemics. Incidents have increased from 240/year in 2015 to 2,366/year in 2024. • Increasing impacts: of the people physically impacted by climate-induced disasters every year, 53% suffer injuries, 41.7% are killed, and 5.3% go missing. • Food insecurity: rising temperatures and erratic rainfall disrupt agriculture, impacting on people’s livelihoods and mental health and contributing to malnutrition. • Increased cases of infectious diseases: there is a shifting pattern of vector-borne diseases and risk of climate sensitive diseases across new geographical regions. A 1oC rise in average temperature is associated with a five-fold rise in water-borne and vector-borne disease-related morbidity and mortality. • Increased instances of non-communicable diseases: Temperature-related morbidity and mortality are rising. • Health system challenges: Nepal’s health system must adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis, tackling limited infrastructure and a shortage of health workers. There’s more on how we are contributing to this adaptation here.
A large 'C' with colours suggesting increasing temperatures and and the words 'Introducing REACT, resilient and equitable health workforce to address climate threats'
Advert - study for a fully-funded PhD - with the words 'Interested in Zimbabwe's health workforce? Want to help mitigate against impacts of the climate crisis? Apply here: bit.ly/CeSHHAR-PHD And a photo of an older Zimbabwean lady in a field