Environmental and climate conditions influence public health, creating new risks or amplifying existing ones. Chronic conditions such as asthma, cardiovascular or kidney diseases, and respiratory illnesses are exacerbated by air pollution, extreme heat, and shifting weather patterns. Similarly, climate conditions can affect the prevalence of vector-borne diseases, like malaria and the development of viruses or pandemics. Space technologies provide a valuable resource to understand and address these issues.

This challenge calls on participants to develop products, devices, or services that leverage European space data, information and signals from Copernicus and Galileo or future services using IRIS2 to forecast and monitor health risks and disease outbreaks. We encourage participants to dive into the areas of:

Health Risks Prediction and Mapping: Use Copernicus data to identify environmental factors, like air quality and heatwaves, that foster health risks and create risk maps and protection tools. Develop predictive models to forecast disease patterns based on climate trends, environmental changes, and population movement and behaviors.

Disease Tracking and Outbreak: Identify hotspots for viruses and diseases like malaria by monitoring environmental changes and water body conditions.

Consumer apps and tools: Create tools that combine satellite data and personal health metrics to guide mitigating health risks.