DATAMATICS OF BUILDING CLIMATE-RESILIENT HEALTH SYSTEMS

Background Information: 
Climate change is increasingly recognised as a systemic threat to health systems globally, disrupting healthcare infrastructure, workforce capacity, supply chains, and service continuity through heatwaves, floods, droughts, and extreme weather events. Despite growing policy attention, health systems worldwide remain largely reactive, with resilience often dependent on fragmented emergency responses rather than institutionalised preparedness. Low- and middle-income countries face disproportionate vulnerability, yet even advanced systems are increasingly exposed to climate-related disruptions. Against mounting international momentum surrounding climate adaptation and health security, this symposium will examine how governance, financing, data systems, and cross-sectoral coordination can be leveraged towards climate-resilient health systems globally.

Target Audience and Goal: 
The symposium is targeting researchers, policymakers, health professionals, development agencies, and practitioners, and students in exploring evidence-based strategies for climate-health resilience building. Discussions will centre on data-driven decision-making, governance reform, adaptation financing, and climate-health metrics, for strengthening health systems preparedness and adaptive capacity worldwide. The symposium contributes a timely interdisciplinary platform linking climate governance, health systems strengthening, and population resilience. It expands climate-population discourse by foregrounding health systems as critical institutions through which climate vulnerability and adaptation are mediated, offering strategic insights relevant to policy, research, and implementation globally. Key Pre-Symposium resources are available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14883129 / https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17733239    

Speakers: 

Dr. Wilhemina Quaye, SOSCHI Project / STEPRI-CSIR, Ghana
Dr. Margaret Appiah, SOSCHI Project / UESD, Ghana
Ms. Lois Antwi-Boadi, SOSCHI Project / RIPS-UG, Ghana

Moderator:

Prof. Delali Benjamin Dovie, SOSCHI Project / RIPS-UG, Ghana