Rachel Lowe

Biographic Data

ID5962774
NAMERachel Lowe
GIVEN NAMESRachel
FAMILY NAMELowe
SIGNATURELOWE R
AFFILIATIONSInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
ORCID0000-0003-3939-7343
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Integrating anticipatory action in disease outbreak preparedness and response in the humanitarian sector

    Open AccessTilly Alcayna, Franziska Kellerhaus et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    In the humanitarian sector, anticipatory action entails acting ahead of predicted hazardous events to prevent or mitigate potential impacts and needs. It leverages early warnings to bridge preparedness and response, with a core principle being the provision of ex-ante emergency funding for preagreed early actions. Traditionally applied to extreme climatic events, there is growing interest in integrating anticipatory action into disease outbreak p…

  • Protecting global health partnerships in the era of destructive nationalism

    Open AccessMaya Adam, Desiree Labeaud et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    "Article signat per xx autors/es: Maya Adam ,Desiree LaBeaud,Nokwanele Mbewu,Jennifer Gates,Randall Waechter,Mercy J. Borbor-Cordova,Lydiah Kibe,Sonia Alvarez,Annie Dori,Anil S. Bilimale,Meggie Mwoka,Jessica Deffler,Michele Spring,Avriel R. Diaz,Rachael Farquhar,Willy Dunbar,Comfort R. Phiri,Valerie A. Luzadis,Nicole Redvers,Cristina Alonso,Rosemary Rochford,Rachel Lowe,Kareem Coomansingh,Moses Laman,Rebeca Sultana,Sadie Ryan,Amaya L. Bustinduy,A…

  • Compound and cascading effects of climatic extremes on dengue outbreak risk in the Caribbean

    Open AccessChloe Fletcher, Giovenale Moirano et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Planetary Health2025References: 1

  • The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

    Open AccessMarina Romanello, Maria Walawender et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

  • The global health community at international climate change negotiations

    Open AccessKim Robin van Daalen, Nanine Wyma et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BOX Health played a central role in the recent Conference of Parties 28 (COP28): witnessing the first official ‘Health Day’, the first COP climate-health ministerial, endorsements of a declaration on climate change and health by 149 countries, the highest number of climate and health-related side-events, and funding commitments of US$1 billion dedicated to climate and health. In this first-ever quantitative analysis of the health community’s atte…

  • The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

    Open AccessMarina Romanello, Claudia Di Napoli et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

  • Quantifying the relationship between climatic indicators and leptospirosis incidence in Fiji

    Open AccessEleanor M Rees, Martín Lotto Batista et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Leptospirosis, a global zoonotic disease, is prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions, including Fiji where it’s endemic with year-round cases and sporadic outbreaks coinciding with heavy rainfall. However, the relationship between climate and leptospirosis has not yet been well characterised in the South Pacific. In this study, we quantify the effects of different climatic indicators on leptospirosis incidence in Fiji, using a time series o…

  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

    Open AccessMarina Romanello, Claudia Di Napoli et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2022

  • Responding to the need of postgraduate education for Planetary Health

    Open AccessCristina O’Callaghan‐Gordo, Cristina O'Callaghan-Gordo et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Planetary Health has emerged as a new approach to respond to the existential risks that the clime and global environmental crises pose to human societies. As stated by various stakeholders, the challenges involved in Planetary Health are of such magnitude that education must be at the forefront to obtain a meaningful response. Universities and higher education institutions have been specifically called to embed the concept of planetary stewardshi…

  • Co-learning during the co-creation of a dengue early warning system for the health sector in Barbados

    Open AccessAnna M Stewart‐Ibarra, Leslie Rollock et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Over the past decade, the Caribbean region has been challenged by compound climate and health hazards, including tropical storms, extreme heat and droughts and overlapping epidemics of mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue, chikungunya and Zika. Early warning systems (EWS) are a key climate change adaptation strategy for the health sector. An EWS can integrate climate information in forecasting models to predict the risk of disease outbreaks …

  • Tracking the impacts of climate change on human health via indicators

    Open AccessClaudia Di Napoli, Alice McGushin et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Our experience shows that CCIEVIs can effectively contribute to a world-wide monitoring system that aims to track, communicate, and harness evidence on climate-induced health impacts towards effective intervention strategies. An ongoing challenge is how to improve CCIEVIs so that the description of the linkages between climate change and human health can become more and more comprehensive

  • The impact of Covid-19 vaccination in prisons in England and Wales

    Open AccessCiara V McCarthy, Oscar O’Mara et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The impact of vaccination in prison settings was highly dependent on early and rapid vaccine delivery. If administered to both those living and working in prison prior to an outbreak occurring, vaccines could substantially reduce COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality in prison settings

  • The local burden of disease during the first wave of the Covid-19 epidemic in England

    Open AccessEmily Nightingale, Emily S Nightingale et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Limitations in testing capacity biased the observed trajectory of COVID-19 infections throughout the first wave. Basing inference on COVID-19-related mortality and higher-coverage testing later in the time period, we could explore the extent of this bias more explicitly. Evidence points towards substantial under-representation of initial growth and peak magnitude of infections nationally, to which different parts of the country contribute unequal…

  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

    Open AccessMarina Romanello, Alice McGushin et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

    Open AccessNick Watts, Markus Amann et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

  • Effectiveness of isolation, testing, contact tracing, and physical distancing on reducing transmission of Sars-CoV-2 in different settings

    Open AccessAdam J Kucharski, Petra Klepac et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Infectious Diseases2020

    BACKGROUND: The isolation of symptomatic cases and tracing of contacts has been used as an early COVID-19 containment measure in many countries, with additional physical distancing measures also introduced as outbreaks have grown. To maintain control of infection while also reducing disruption to populations, there is a need to understand what combination of measures-including novel digital tracing approaches and less intensive physical distancin…

  • The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

    Open AccessNick Watts, Markus Amann et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

    The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement.

  • The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

    Open AccessNick Watts, Markus Amann et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

  • Evaluation of an Early-Warning System for Heat Wave-Related Mortality in Europe

    Open AccessRachel Lowe, Markel García‐Díez et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2016

    Heat waves have been responsible for more fatalities in Europe over the past decades than any other extreme weather event. However, temperature-related illnesses and deaths are largely preventable. Reliable sub-seasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) climate forecasts of extreme temperatures could allow for better short-to-medium-term resource management within heat-health action plans, to protect vulnerable populations and ensure access to preventive measure…

  • Evaluating the Performance of a Climate-Driven Mortality Model during Heat Waves and Cold Spells in Europe

    Open AccessRachel Lowe, Joan Ballester et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2015

    The impact of climate change on human health is a serious concern. In particular, changes in the frequency and intensity of heat waves and cold spells are of high relevance in terms of mortality and morbidity. This demonstrates the urgent need for reliable early-warning systems to help authorities prepare and respond to emergency situations. In this study, we evaluate the performance of a climate-driven mortality model to provide probabilistic pr…

  • Climate Services to Improve Public Health

    Open AccessMichel Jancloes, Madeleine C Thomson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2014

    A high level expert panel discussed how climate and health services could best collaborate to improve public health. This was on the agenda of the recent Third International Climate Services Conference, held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, 4-6 December 2013. Issues and challenges concerning a demand led approach to serve the health sector needs, were identified and analysed. Important recommendations emerged to ensure that innovative collaboration betwe…

  • Structure and Stricture

    Rachel Lowe, R F LoweARTICLEThe Musical Times1960