A planetary health perspective on the translation of climate change research into public health policy and practice: A scoping review protocol

Chanelle Mulopo; Samuel Abimbola; Nyamongo Onkoba; Bey-Marrie Schmidt

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0295931

A planetary health perspective on the translation of climate change research into public health policy and practice: A scoping review protocol

PLoS One. 2024 Mar 13;19(3):e0295931. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295931. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Chanelle Mulopo¹, Samuel Abimbola², Nyamongo Onkoba³, Bey-Marrie Schmidt^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus.
³ School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, The Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁴ Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.

Abstract

Background: Climate Change (CC) emanating from anthropocentric human activities is a great threat to the quality of human life and well-being worldwide. The translation of CC research evidence can play a critical role in promoting the formulation of climate-sensitive policies to equip public health systems for CC-associated disaster preparedness, response, and management. This scoping review seeks to explore knowledge translation approaches for promoting, the uptake, and use of CC research evidence in public health policy and practice.

Methods: This scoping review will be conducted according to the guidelines of Arksey and O'Malley. A search strategy will be developed for published articles in PubMed, CINAHL, and Scopus databases and for grey literature in the World Health Organization, Planetary Health Alliance, and the University of the Western Cape repositories.

Discussion: The proposed scoping review will gather existing evidence on the relationship between knowledge translation, CC research, and public health decision-making. This will provide insights into research and practice gaps, and recommendations will be made to ensure effective knowledge translation for CC related decision-making.

Copyright: © 2024 Mulopo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

MeSH terms

Climate Change*
Health Policy
Humans
Public Policy*
Research Design
Review Literature as Topic

Grants and funding

The work reported herein was made possible through funding by the South African Medical Research Council through its Division of Research Capacity Development under the SAMRC Research Capacity Development Initiative-Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme from funding received from the South African National Treasury. The contents hereof are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the SAMRC or the funders.