🌍🏥🛰️ Space-based tech can help build stronger, resilient health systems worldwide!
Leaders from across the health, technology, policy, and research sectors gather today for Geneva Digital Health Day to promote cross-sector collaboration.
As climate change, environmental pressures, and emerging disease risks increasingly impact global health, space-based technologies are becoming an important part of the solution.
UNOOSA Director Aarti Holla-Maini delivered a keynote on “Building Resilient Health Systems in Times of Crisis,” highlighting how Earth observation and other space technologies can:
🛰️ Detect environmental and health risks earlier — including conditions linked to mosquito-borne disease outbreaks
🌡️ Monitor extreme heat and air pollution to help protect vulnerable populations
🚨 Strengthen preparedness and emergency response through near real-time environmental monitoring
📊 Support better decision-making by combining satellite, environmental, and health data
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