Leveraging AI to Understand and Share the Impacts of Climate on Public Health
PRO Health, Climate & AI is a multi-institutional research project forged by collaboration across diverse science specialties, all focused on leveraging complex machine learning and AI to understand the implications of the climate crisis for public health. The project is focused on creating an epidemiological AI model and knowledge base that links specific elements of climate change to projections of their impact on life- and health-span for individuals and their communities.
PRO spent 2025 assembling a project team, establishing the vision for their product, and developing the scientific methods for the work. They are full steam ahead in 2026, and plan to launch a public website that engages civic and academic experts and advocates across the climate and public health space. It will be exciting to see what they accomplish in the coming year.
"Climate science is facing new headwinds in the current political environment—it's more critical than ever to create data-driven, trustworthy tools to help drive solutions."
- Matt Willis, MD MPH, Chief Scientist, PRO Climate and Health Initiative