Developing Scenario-Based Strategies for Health, Climate, and Environmental Preparedness: The One Health, One Earth ApproachPacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Research Applications Laboratory, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA.
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA; Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, MD, USA.
Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Tsukuba Institute for Advanced Research (TIAR), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
Guangdong-HongKong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Collaborative Innovation for Environmental Quality, College of Environment and Climate, Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Keck School of Medicine and Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, MI, USA.
Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Department of Cellular Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
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2026 (English)In: GeoHealth, E-ISSN 2471-1403, Vol. 10, no 4, article id e2025GH001674Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Climate change amplifies many threats to human health. Despite advances in understanding climate change dynamics and impacts, there remains a critical gap in translating scientific knowledge into equitable, and community-driven health interventions. The inaugural One Earth, One Health workshop sought to explore this gap through human-centered design exercises involving interdisciplinary researchers from climate and Earth sciences, engineering, epidemiology, microbiology, and environmental health. Although participants did not co-develop solutions with affected communities, they used stakeholder role-playing to guide ideation and lay groundwork for actionable plans. Through these methods, participants identified community needs and proposed prototype solutions to alleviate health threats exacerbated by global environmental change. Prototypes were organized around infectious diseases, extreme weather, and air quality, as illustrative themes rather than an exhaustive set of risks. Key solutions included strategies for anticipatory systems and early warning (e.g., integrating environmental signals with health data), inclusive communication and infrastructure needs for responding to extreme weather events, and integrated platforms visualizing air quality trends to support tailored, context-aware guidance beyond one-size-fits-all alerts. The workshop highlighted opportunities such as leveraging machine learning, Earth observation, and real-time surveillance to protect communities, but also noted barriers including data quality, technological redundancy, privacy, and governance challenges. Additionally, participants emphasized the need for interdisciplinary teams capable of collaborating across sectors, breaking down silos and addressing gaps in training and education. Overall, the workshop illustrates how process-driven, human-centered approaches can help surface user needs and generate testable prototype concepts, while underscoring the importance of direct community partnership for implementation.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Geophysical Union (AGU) , 2026. Vol. 10, no 4, article id e2025GH001674
Keywords [en]
climate extremes, community, environmental health, human centered design, One Health
National Category
Climate Science Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-379408DOI: 10.1029/2025GH001674ISI: 001731310800001PubMedID: 41930227Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105034537950OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-379408DiVA, id: diva2:2053414
Note
QC 20260416
2026-04-162026-04-162026-04-16Bibliographically approved