This document summarizes the first meeting of an expert group convened in April 2023.
The meeting had two key aims:
1) to convene a group of multidisciplinary experts (representing MNCH, monitoring and evaluation as well as environmental epidemiology, thermal physiology and climate science) to start building a community of research and practice reflecting the complex multidisciplinary and multisectoral nature of climate change mitigation and response, specifically with regards to extreme heat and health monitoring and EWSs;
2) to identify needs and next steps to reach consensus on a set of priority indicators to monitor the impacts of extreme heat on MNCH as well as on potential thresholds for heat-health EWS that are specific to pregnant and postpartum women, newborns and infants.
