Webinar Details
Source: HE²AT Center
Date: June 30, 2026
Duration: 00: 55:58
Language: English
Speakers and presenters:
Darshnika Lakhoo — Wits Planetary Health Research
Cherlynn Dumbura — CeSHHAR
Natasha Lalloo — Wits Planetary Health Research
Prestige Tatenda Makanga — CeSHHAR
Guéladio Cissé — UPGC / CSRS / Swiss TPH
Sibusisiwe Makhanya — IBM Research Africa
Matthew F. Chersich — Wits Planetary Health Research
Webinar Overview
Your Data, Our Shared Progress is a HE²AT Center webinar dedicated for data providers and partners, sharing updates on how contributed datasets are being acquired, harmonised, securely managed, and translated into climate-health research and policy-relevant outputs.
The session covers the HE²AT Center’s aims and progress, including dataset acquisition across pregnancy cohorts and urban heat-health studies, AI-assisted harmonisation through the HE²AT codebook and HarmonAIze toolkit, preliminary research findings on heat, pregnancy outcomes, air pollution, and urban heat vulnerability, as well as data governance, access, storage, and the future plans as the Center comes to an end of its project span.
This webinar highlights the vital role of data providers in building a reusable, well-governed evidence base to understand and address the impacts of heat and environmental exposures on maternal, newborn, child, and urban health in Africa.