Developing Scenario‐Based Strategies for Health, Climate, and Environmental Preparedness: The One Health, One Earth Approach
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: GeoHealth
DOI: 10.1029/2025gh001674
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
Institutions: University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Maryland, College Park, Colorado State University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Texas A&M University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, NSF NCAR Research Applications Laboratory, Stony Brook University, University of Cambridge, University of Florida, University of Tsukuba, Jinan University, University of Michigan, Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Collaborative Innovation for Environmental Quality, Stockholm University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, George Washington University, University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Indiana University Bloomington
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,000
OpenAlex ID: W7147596757