A call for the informatics community to define priority practice and research areas at the intersection of climate and health: report from 2023 mini-summit.
Titus Schleyer, Manijeh Berenji, Monica Deck, Hana Chung, Joshua Choi, Theresa A Cullen, Timothy Burdick, Amanda Zaleski, Kelly Jean Thomas Craig, Oluseyi Fayanju, Muhammad Muinul Islam
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Abstract
Objective: Although biomedical informatics has multiple roles to play in addressing the climate crisis, collaborative action and research agendas have yet to be developed. As a first step, AMIA's new Climate, Health, and Informatics Working Group held a mini-summit entitled Climate and health: How can informatics help? during the AMIA 2023 Fall Symposium to define an initial set of areas of interest and begin mobilizing informaticians to confront the urgent challenges of climate change.
Materials and methods: The AMIA Climate, Health, and Informatics Working Group (at the time, an AMIA Discussion Forum), the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI), and the Regenstrief Institute hosted a mini-summit entitled Climate and health: How can informatics help? on November 11, 2023, during the AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium (New Orleans, LA, USA). Using an affinity diagramming approach, the mini-summit organizers posed 2 questions to ∼50 attendees (40 in-person, 10 virtual).
Results: Participants expressed a broad array of viewpoints on actions that can be undertaken now and areas needing research to support future actions. Areas of current action ranged from enhanced education to expanded telemedicine to assessment of community vulnerability. Areas of research ranged from emergency preparedness to climate-specific clinical coding to risk prediction models.
Discussion: The mini-summit was intended as a first step in helping the informatics community at large set application and research priorities for climate, health, and informatics.
Conclusion: The working group will use these perspectives as it seeks further input, and begins to establish priorities for climate-related biomedical informatics actions and research.
期刊介绍:
JAMIA is AMIA''s premier peer-reviewed journal for biomedical and health informatics. Covering the full spectrum of activities in the field, JAMIA includes informatics articles in the areas of clinical care, clinical research, translational science, implementation science, imaging, education, consumer health, public health, and policy. JAMIA''s articles describe innovative informatics research and systems that help to advance biomedical science and to promote health. Case reports, perspectives and reviews also help readers stay connected with the most important informatics developments in implementation, policy and education.