The question
How can this evidence help protect people?
Scientific findings become more useful when they reflect the needs of the people and places affected. This workstream brings researchers, older adults, caregivers and policymakers from partner countries together to translate BRAIN-CLIMA findings into tools and climate policy guidance.
Our approach
Evidence shaped with communities
Develop the BVRI
Co-design a Brain Vulnerability and Resilience Index that brings together exposure, biological and sociodemographic evidence to help identify vulnerable regions and populations.
Put lived experience at the centre
Convene a Lived Experience and Policymaker Advisory Group to interpret findings, shape priorities and make the tools useful in local contexts.
Support policy and implementation
Co-produce accessible briefs in English and Spanish on clean air, heat-health action, climate mitigation and adaptation, and urban planning. Share learning through regional and global networks.
Co-production
People help shape
the questions —
and the solutions.
Older adults, caregivers and policymakers will help interpret the evidence and shape the BVRI and policy briefs through structured workshops and ongoing dialogue.
What we aim to deliver
Planned outputs
- A BVRI prototype with planned calibration and validation
- Co-produced policy briefs in English and Spanish
- Advisory-group insights and community-informed recommendations
Workstream leadership
Dr Burcin Ikiz
EcoNeuro / Neuro Climate Working Group
BVRI development, policy recommendations and global dissemination
Dr Emma Lawrance
University of Oxford
Policy translation and lived experience co-production