Is climate change or environmental degradation impacting your MSF project? Share your experience or research.
Deadline: 10 August 2025
Length: 500-800 words
Every year, The Lancet, an international medical journal, publishes the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, a major global report tracking the health impacts of climate change. MSF contributes to a joint brief alongside the main report, highlighting our operational experiences.
We are now preparing this year’s brief and invite you to submit your experiences, projects, or research for possible inclusion. To see how operational examples are used, you can read last year’s brief here.
How can I submit?
If you have any questions, and to submit, please email [email protected]
Review process
Submissions will be reviewed and selected by members of the Lancet Countdown Editorial Committee, which includes climate and environmental health experts and advocacy representatives.
We are looking for examples that:
1. Bear witness to the direct, indirect, or diffused impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on people’s health and wellbeing, or on the functioning of health systems and health care provision.
2. Amplify the voices and perspectives of affected communities, including any collaboration with civil society organisations or local actors.
Examples may include:
· Impacts on a particular population or health issue.
· Adaptation and/or coping mechanisms employed and the limits of these.
· Losses and/or damages to health and wellbeing, and/or health supporting systems or infrastructure.
3. Highlight best practices or MSF interventions aiming to:
· Mitigate our environmental impact in humanitarian settings.
· Protect and improve health in a context of growing climate-related needs.
· Integrate and scale up existing health/climate knowledge to adapt better to needs.
· Innovate to ensure interventions remain “fit for purpose” in projected climate scenarios.
· Make health facilities and models of care more resilient to climate impacts.
4. Highlight identified needs and gaps at the intersect of climate, health, and humanitarian action, related to:
· Monitoring, early warning, surveillance, and data collection.
· Identification of hazards, risks, and vulnerability.
· Research and systematic observation.
· Regional, national, or subnational planning and implementation.
· Partnerships and collaboration.