Journal Article Epublish
PubMed: 41930227 DOI: 10.1029/2025GH001674
Developing Scenario-Based Strategies for Health, Climate, and Environmental Preparedness: The One Health, One Earth Approach.
Geohealth 10(4):e2025GH001674
Authors: Azar M Abadi, Kyle D Brumfield, Moiz Usmani, Gemma Jiang, T C Chakraborty, Yuzhou Wang, Zhijie Zhou, Cenlin He, Minghao Qiu, Jennifer D Stowell, Douglas Fritz, Sunil Kumar, Qiang Guo, Ying Xiong, Georgia Destouni, Qian Xiao, Xindi C Hu, Kelvin C Fong, Yun Hang, John Nielsen-Gammon, Rima Habre, Jennifer R Bratburd, Christopher W Tessum, Antarpreet Jutla, Rita R Colwell, Gabriel M Filippelli, Thanh H Nguyen
Affiliations
- Environmental Health Sciences Department University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham AL 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.
- Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham AL USA.
- Institute for Research in the Social Sciences Colorado State University Fort Collins CO USA.
- Pacific 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 Physical Geography Stockholm University Stockholm Sweden.
- Department of Sustainable Development Environmental Science and Engineering KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm Sweden.
- 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 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.
- Environmental Resilience Institute Indiana University Bloomington IN USA.
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL USA.
Abstract
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.
MeSH
Air Pollution, Climate, Extreme Weather, Weather, Solutions, Air, Environmental Health, Universal Design