A satellite session at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference (IMNHC2026)

Tuesday 24 March, 2-5.15pm

Join this session for a refresher on how extreme heat affects MNCH, backed by the latest evidence, and hands-on examples of promising interventions and tools to inform your MNCH heat and health strategy.

The impact of heat exposure on MNCH remains overlooked in heat health action plans and climate action.

Using engaging, interactive formats, this session will identify priority actions to integrate MNCH into climate change and health efforts across policy, programming, research, and monitoring. It will look at what decision makers, health workers and advocates can do, at different levels of the health system and in their respective programmes, to reduce the impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women, newborns, young children and health workers.

Countries will share what steps they have taken, and what tools they are using to reduce heat-health impacts on this vulnerable population.