Overview
This document summarizes the discussions and conclusions of the April meeting.
The meeting had two key aims:
1) to convene a group of multidisciplinary experts (representing MNCH, monitoring and
evaluation as well as environmental epidemiology, thermal physiology and climate
science) to start building a community of research and practice reflecting the complex
multidisciplinary and multisectoral nature of climate change mitigation and response,
specifically with regards to extreme heat and health monitoring and EWSs;
2) to identify needs and next steps to reach consensus on a set of priority indicators to monitor
the impacts of extreme heat on MNCH as well as on potential thresholds for heat-health
EWS that are specific to pregnant and postpartum women, newborns and infants.