Condition: Resting Heart Rate · Blood Glucose Control · Depression · Sponsor: Aditi Bunker
Ambient air temperatures in Asian, Latin American, African, and Pacific climate hotspots have broken record highs in 2024, driven by man-made climate change. Solutions are needed to reduce heat exposure in communities. Sunlight-reflecting cool roof coatings passively reduce indoor temperatures and energy use to protect home occupants from extreme heat. Occupants living in poor housing conditions globally - for example in informal settlements, slums, and low-socioeconomic households - are especially vulnerable to increased indoor heat exposure. Heat exposure can instigate and worsen numerous physical, mental and social health conditions. The worst adverse health effects are being experienced in communities least able to adapt to heat exposure. By reducing indoor temperatures, cool roof use can promote physical, mental and social wellbeing in occupants. The long-term research goal is to identify viable passive housing adaptation technologies with proven health and environmental benefits to reduce the burden of heat stress in communities affected by heat globally. To meet this goal, the investigators will conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial to establish the effects of cool roof use on health, indoor environment and economic outcomes in five urban climate hotspots: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Colima, Mexico; Ahmedabad, India; Niue; and Tavua, Fiji.
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Aditi Bunker, Dr · +49 6221 565344 · aditi.bunker@uni-heidelberg.de
Collin Tukuitonga, Sir. Dr. · +6493737599 · collin.tukuitonga@auckland.ac.nz
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| University Joseph Ki-Zerbo | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | Active Not Recruiting |
| Fiji National University | Suva, Fiji | Recruiting |
| Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar | Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, India | Active Not Recruiting |
| Instituto Tecnológico de Hermosillo | Hermosillo, Sanora, Mexico | Not Yet Recruiting |
| Niue | Alofi, Niue | Active Not Recruiting |
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