Accelerator for Resilience in Climate and Health (ARCH)

On 3 December 2023, the Commonwealth Secretariat and PATH held an event at COP 28 in Dubai, UAE, to launch the Accelerator for Resilience in Climate and Health. This end-to-end accelerator platform  sources, deploys, finances, and scales innovations that help public health systems and communities mitigate, adapt to, and build resilience against the impacts of climate change.

ARCH has built a pipeline of over 20 high-impact innovations including:

1. Climate-informed AI based Dengue Early Warning Systems which leverages weather parameters like rainfall, temperature, humidity, and historical case data to develop 4-week predictive risk maps at district and sub-district levels to guide outbreak response and integrated vector control management in response to climate-induced case surges of Dengue;
2. A Disease outbreak intelligence platform which offers real-time tracking of multiple datasets and supports global emerging biothreat monitoring in 65 languages and develops predictive models for decision-making for potential climate-induced spread of pandemic-scale outbreaks;
3. Smart Mosquito Control and Management devices that examine and detect mosquito species to share critical alerts with decision-makers on impending vector-borne disease outbreaks due to changing climatic conditions; and
4. Point-of-care rapid Dengue and Chikungunya Detection kits to fast-track community-level screening and testing during disease outbreaks exacerbated by climate change, aiding in early-stage disease management.

Innovations such as those included in ARCH can make a huge difference across the Commonwealth, which stretches across five continents and encompasses a third of humanity.

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