City-led early
warning systems
Why do we exist?
Across Asia, climate change is no longer a distant environmental concern. Extreme heat, flooding, air pollution, water contamination, vector-borne disease expansion, and nutrition shocks are placing daily strain on city health systems. These risks converge most sharply in urban areas and disproportionately affect women, children, informal workers, and marginalised communities.
Despite growing climate impacts, most subnational governments continue to operate in a reactive mode. Climate and health data are fragmented across systems, governance responsibilities are unclear, and financing mechanisms prioritise emergency response rather than prevention.
The Asia Climate-Health Resilience Hub was created to address this systemic gap. Its purpose is to support cities in shifting from crisis response to anticipation and prevention, and to embed climate–health risk management into routine government decision-making.
What makes the Hub Distinct
The hub is not just another pilot but an investment and implementation platform.
The hub allows integration of four elements rarely brought together in climate-health.
Community-rooted and facility-level health surveillance
Multi-source climate-health intelligence
Blended financing for implementation
Helps governments move from
Risk awareness & translation
System Design
Multi-year financed action
What Makes the Hub Different
The Hub is designed to integrate elements that are typically addressed in isolation. It brings together city-led early warning systems, community- and facility-level health surveillance, multi-source climate–health intelligence, and blended financing for implementation within a single operating model.
Co-founded by Health Innovation Exchange (HiEx), UID and Swasti and hosted in partnership with Indonesia’s Ministry of Health, the Hub is anchored in policy legitimacy, academic excellence, and the Tri Hita Karana ecosystem, a platform purpose-built for cross-sector collaboration and shared value creation. Crucially, the Hub operates as a blended financing facility, helping subnational governments translate climate-health risk into investable, multi-year resilience programmes rather than one-off pilots.
