Key Takeaways
Climate-driven infectious disease: Climate change alters the magnitude, timing, seasonality, and geographical spread of infectious diseases across Southeast Asia.
Disaster-amplified health: Extreme events such as floods, storms, droughts, and heatwaves disrupt WASH, healthcare, and living conditions, increasing the risks of vector-, water-, food-, and respiratory-borne diseases.
How to Reduce Risks?
To significantly reduce health risks, communities must focus on active preparedness and cross-sector collaboration before disasters hit.
Implementing anticipatory action and early action protocols leverages predictive forecasts, surveillance, and disease lag tracking to trigger critical interventions before health threats escalate.
Grassroots organizations can mitigate these impacts by monitoring early signals, integrating health and WASH services into response plans, and deploying early action protocols tailored to local needs.
At the end of the series, participants will be able to:
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