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ArticleFrontiers in global women's health2026

Priorities for an African research agenda on climate, environment and maternal, newborn and child health.

Prestige Tatenda Makanga, Tamara Rosemary Govindasamy, Sibusisiwe Audrey Makhanya

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Article in Frontiers in global women's health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Prestige Tatenda MakangaPlace Alert Labs, Surveying and Geomatics Department, Faculty of the Built Environment, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe.
Tamara Rosemary GovindasamyIBM Research, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sibusisiwe Audrey MakhanyaIBM Research, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Funding

Landscape fire smoke and birth outcomes in Sub Saharan AfricaU01ES036146 · NIEHS · CENTRE/SEXUAL HLTH/HIV AID RES/ZIMBABWE · PI GOVINDASAMY, TAMARA, MAKANGA, PRESTIGE TATENDA · 2023 to 2025
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Climate change and environmental degradation are reshaping maternal, newborn and child health risks across Africa, yet evidence generation remains constrained by sparse monitoring infrastructure, fragmented health and environmental data, limited data linkage, and uneven governance capacity. This Perspective proposes priorities for an African research agenda on climate, environment and maternal, newborn and child health. It argues for research that is continentally relevant but locally grounded: designed for data scarcity, attentive to climate and environmental heterogeneity, reflexive about data sovereignty, and embedded in translation and capacity strengthening. Drawing on experience from the CHEAQI-MNCH project and related work in selected West, East and Southern African settings, we outline seven priorities for African-led, context-sensitive and action-oriented climate and environmental health research.

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African contextair pollutionclimateenvironmenthealth impactmaternal and child health

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PMID42682501
PMCPMC13529744

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