Landscape mapping of software tools for climate- sensitive infectious disease

To enhance the transferability of the findings, we • Where the current approaches have provided a description of the to modelling the impact of climate- contexts, selection and background sensitive infectious diseases fall of participants, data collection and short of what is required as a policy analysis process (33,34). [...] Principal challenges to obtaining key datasets Barriers to the effective use of disease forecast models The principal challenges to obtaining datasets for climate- Key barriers preventing the use of climate-disease disease modelling are related to the incompleteness of the models as decision-support tools are poor data quality, data and lack of access despite formal partnership and miscommunicatio. [...] We suspect that having political need to adapt to what people mandates would be very on the ground are using and important.” make the most of it.” In summary, the development of cutting edge tools is important, but even more important are the multi-sectoral collaborations, strengthening of local capacities, and the ability of tool developers to clearly communicate with decision makers. [...] Landscape mapping of software tools for climate- sensitive infectious disease modelling 28 2.3.3 Barriers to the Use of Climate- Disease Models Respondents identified barriers to the use of climate-disease models including issues in translating scientific models into common language useful to decision makers, lack of political will and national mandates for climate and health work, lack of funding. [...] The findings from this project indicate a number There is a need to develop tools across a range of spatio- of opportunities to invest in the development and temporal scales to capture climate and disease processes at implementation of climate driven infectious disease different scales and to support decision making needs across modelling tools.