This community innovation has been accepted at the 2026 DHIS2 Annual Conference as a physical poster.
Integrating climate and health statistics
Health impacts of climate change have gained increasing global visibility, with health declarations and programmes integrated into the COP process since 2021. Yet despite this recognition, official statistics have been slow to capture and report the complex relationships between climate factors and health outcomes. A significant gap persists between emerging scientific evidence and the availability of harmonised, policy‑relevant climate–health indicators within national statistical systems. This session will launch the Standards for Official Statistics on Climate–Health Interactions (SOSCHI) Climate and Health Platform, a major step toward addressing this gap. The platform offers the global statistical community a unified framework and open‑source toolset designed to support consistent and scalable reporting on climate–health interactions. It provides methodological guidelines, indicator definitions, implementation pathways, and practical resources that help countries navigate common data and technical challenges in producing robust climate–health statistics. A core feature of the platform is its integration with the open‑source SOSCHI R package, which allows users either to run analyses locally or to upload national datasets directly to the platform’s indicator tool to automatically calculate climate–health indicators. This functionality lowers technical barriers by simplifying complex modelling steps and ensuring methodological transparency. For many National Statistical Offices—especially those with limited specialised analytical capacity—the package offers an accessible entry point for operationalising indicators that previously required advanced expertise, enabling countries to focus on interpretation, planning, and policy action.
SOSCHI pull up banner v2-00.pdf (2.1 MB)
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