About the Authors

Joy Shumake-Guillemot

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation WHO-WMO Joint Climate and Health Office, Geneva, Switzerland

Rosa von Borries

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

rvonborries@wmo.int

Affiliation WHO-WMO Joint Climate and Health Office, Geneva, Switzerland

Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Juli Trtanj

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, DC, United States of America

Jonathan Abrahams

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Peter Berry

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada

S. C. Bhan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India

Juan Castillo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America

Yolanda Clewlow

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United Kingdom Met Office, London, United Kingdon

Sally Edwards

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Manila, Philippines

David Gikungu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya Meteorological Department, Nairobi, Kenya

Kenza Khomsi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation General Directorate of Meteorology, Casablanca, Morocco

Qi Yong Liu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation China Centre for Disease Control, Beijing, China

Roché Mahon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Bridgetown, Barbados

Andreas Matzarakis

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation German Meteorological Service, Offenbach, Germany

Marcella Ohira

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Montevideo, Uruguay

Judy Omumbo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Science for Africa Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya

Kyu Rang Kim

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Korea Meteorological Administration, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Reija Ruuhela

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Ben Ryder

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom

Craig Sinclair

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Council Victoria, East Melbourne, Australia

Madeleine Thomson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom

Coleen Vogel

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.