Building on successes and lessons from CHIP, CHVI will go a step further and assess climate-sensitive health vulnerability indices, which will help forecast risks such as air pollution spikes, heat-related illnesses, or vector-borne disease outbreaks. CHVI holds the potential to function as an early warning system for health officials to deploy targeted interventions and reallocate resources swiftly and appropriately to areas where climate-sensitive health risks are the highest.
With the ability to integrate data with state-level health monitoring systems, CHVI offers promise to enhance state-level early warning capacity and risk management.
IHF’s 24-month phased grant to Khushi Baby will catalyze the development of CHVI in Rajasthan involving data engineering, policy inputs and stress testing, followed by a validation phase with pilot testing, training, and feedback loops. A final refinement phase will allow for model adjustments, training, state-wide dissemination in Rajasthan and positioning the open-access digital public good for multi-state adoption.