On December 17, in the presence of relevant responsible persons from the Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau and the Shenzhen Health Commission, the Shenzhen National Climate Observatory and the Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention officially signed a cooperation memorandum, and jointly released two personalized health meteorological service products: the Low-Temperature Health Risk Forecast and the High-Temperature Heatwave Health Risk Forecast. This marks new progress made by Shenzhen in the in-depth integration of meteorology and public health, as well as in collaborative services for urban governance.
How to transform obscure meteorological data into health risk alerts closely related to citizens’ well-being? For a long time, the Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau has carried out various explorations based on meteorological science popularization, among which the ” + Meteorology” initiative is one of the important starting points. This “Health + Meteorology” cooperation centers on serving people’s lives and health, and closely aligns with the requirements of documents such as the National Action Plan for Health Adaptation to Climate Change (2024-2030) and the Shenzhen Climate Change Adaptation Plan (2023-2035). It aims to establish a long-term cross-departmental and cross-field collaboration mechanism, deeply integrate the “outpost” advantage of meteorological monitoring and early warning with the “defensive line” function of disease control and prevention, and systematically improve Shenzhen’s adaptive capacity and public service level in responding to the health impacts of extreme weather events and long-term climate change.
According to the memorandum, the Shenzhen National Climate Observatory and the Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention will strive to improve the mechanism for information and data product sharing and integrated application, realizing the efficient interconnection of real-time monitoring information and prediction results, such as conventional meteorological elements, influenza, and the density of Aedes mosquitoes (the vector of dengue fever). Meanwhile, the two parties will focus on establishing a joint creation mechanism for urban climate and health service products, targeting prominent public health risks against the backdrop of climate change, and taking the lead in conducting collaborative research and product innovation in multiple fields including infectious disease early warning and prevention, as well as health protection against extreme weather. The cooperation between the two sides will also extend to multiple dimensions such as the construction of a relationship model between meteorological conditions and foodborne diarrhea, the long-term impact assessment of climate change on disease epidemic patterns, and healthy city planning, thus building a three-dimensional health meteorological service system covering multiple diseases and risks, and running through the entire chain of “monitoring-early warning-assessment-protection”.
In the future, the two parties will give full play to the linkage efficiency of meteorological early warning and public health services, continuously deepen data sharing, joint research and product co-construction, launch relevant public health meteorological services in a timely manner, constantly improve the city’s health meteorological risk early warning and response capacity, jointly address the health risks brought by climate change, serve the construction of Healthy China, and create a Shenzhen model of a healthy city.
