The REACH Project Team at #COP30! 🌍 We had the privilege of presenting our COP30 report to Her Excellency, Márcia Helena Carvalho Lopes, Minister of Women in Brazil. We explored shared priorities on #climate change and #health, and we’re excited for future engagement to strengthen MCH resilience.

What if we could open the black box of pay-for-performance? Our new study on Tanzania’s maternal health program uses agent-based modeling to explain the behavior and system mechanisms behind improved facility births—and how better payment timing could unlock more gains. www.jasss.org/28/4/7.html

#REACH researchers contributed to a great new resource for the #health #systems community, a #book called: Health Systems Resilience: #Understanding Complex #Adaptive Systems (ed Karl Blanchet). Read more here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Our longer-term goal is to develop a robust hybrid model that leverages the strengths of different modelling approaches (system dynamics and agent-based) to capture both demand and supply of maternal and child health services during floods and heatwaves.

This #prototype represents a significant step towards #building a #SDM to assess the impacts of #floods, #heat, and resilience-building interventions on #health #service delivery, focusing on the #processes that drive #supply of services in #Brazil and #Zambia.

The model is built around state charts #tracking women through #pregnancy (antenatal clinic visits and deliveries) and #vaccination of infants. #Next steps include #tailoring the model to #Zambia and #Brazil using #real data and #stakeholder input.

The REACH project celebrated a key milestone with the development of a functional #prototype agent-based model using #AI generated data #simulating how #climate hazards impact #women’s care seeking behaviour and #health facilities.

REACH Project Selected as Supporting Evidence for Concrete Inputs to the Belém Health Action Plan at the Global Conference on Climate & Health in Brasília! www.who.int/news-room/ev...

@ivansilva92.bsky.social presented on the review of flood and heat impacts on maternal and child health care at the recent #IHEA2025 conference. Learn more about our work here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Researchers from the #REACH project actively contributed to multiple sessions at the #IHEA2025, showcasing our work at the intersection of climate change and maternal & child health systems. Click here to learn more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Launched our new book Health Financing in Low & Middle Income Countries: The Path to UHC at #IHEA2025 pre-conference. Co-edited by me, Daniel Maceira, Shankar Prinja & Virginia Wiseman. Great talks by chapter authors & thanks to all for support & ideas to promote the book!

Just back from #IHEA2025 in Bali, Indonesia! I moderated our REACH project session (www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...) with exciting talks on climate impacts on maternal & child health care by @IvanSilva & @ChitaluChama. #ClimateChange #MaternalHealth

We’re pleased to share that our paper, “Regional variations in the impacts of #high #temperature on #hospital #admissions in #Brazil,” has been published in #Environment #International. Read the full article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...