About us

Vision

To support health services to respond to extreme weather events in urban informal communities in collaboration with urban marginalised people, health systems and government actors.

Mission

To strengthen health service preparedness and delivery for urban marginalised communities before and during extreme weather events.
To understand the social vulnerabilities and health service impacts on urban marginalised people during recent extreme weather events.
To understand the preparedness of health systems during and following extreme weather events.
To work with communities, health systems and state actors to co-produce and implement research-informed interventions, and monitor and evaluate them.
To promote uptake of project learning by health system actors, communities, other stakeholders, and global health researchers.

Our team

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)

The George Institute, India

Sierra Leone Urban Research Center (SLURC)

Slum Dwellers International Kenya

Centre of Dialogue on Human Settlement and Poverty Alleviation (CODOHSAPA)

The Institute of Gender and Children’s Health Research (IGCHR)

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