Urban Climate Health Nexus: Enhancing Resilience and Health Equity through Citizen Science, Dynamic System Modeling, and Policy Innovation

The Urban Climate Health Nexus project, awarded by WOTRO Science for Global Development, focuses on mitigating the disproportionate impact of extreme weather events on marginalized populations to reduce health inequalities. Utilizing a systems perspective to address this polycrisis, the initiative employs dynamic system modeling across four specific case studies. Experts and stakeholders will collaborate to identify critical feedback loops and intervention targets, ensuring that the resulting strategies are grounded in systemic analysis. To ensure local relevance, the project integrates a citizen science approach for data collection, incorporating lived experiences to refine the models. The ultimate goal is to produce site-specific policy recommendations and a transferable modeling framework that can be implemented in other vulnerable urban environments globally. This award notice, identified by solicitation number 24.411, outlines a comprehensive effort to enhance urban resilience and health equity through collaborative innovation.