Climate change and health risks in Senegal

This report, developed with support from the USAID-funded ATLAS (Climate Change Adaptation, Thought Leadership, and Assessments) activity, examines how future climate impacts may harm health outcomes in this West African nation of 14.5 million people. Through detailed analysis of shifting rainfall and temperature patterns, the report looks region by region at the potential for increased risks related to waterborne, vector-borne, and neglected tropical diseases, as well as declining nutrition. This study is the first piece of a three-part series that will include an assessment of climate change and health in Mozambique and a thought leadership paper comparing approaches to assessments of health and climate change in Africa. (ClimateLinks.org abstract)