Climate and health adaptation: evidence needs for policy (Stakeholder mapping in Europe) Francesca de’Donato F de’Donato 1 , S Kovats 2 , I Otto 3 , G Turner 2 , A Hoeben 3 , S Hajat 2 , K Aunan 4 1 Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy 2 Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, LSHTM, London, UK 3 Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University Graz, Graz, Austria 4 CICERO, Oslo, Norway Contact: f.dedonato@deplazio.it Introduction: In recent years, both the EU Commission and the Belmont Forum have funded projects focusing on health and climate change with the aim of expanding research and evidence and improving intersectoral cooperation. The EU-funded ENBEL project is developing tools to streamline climate and health research to support policies and strategies and improve response and resilience. Methods: Within ENBEL a stakeholder analysis is being carried out for Europe to identify key decision makers involved in climate change and health adaptation, understand interlinkages and identify areas for action to promote collaboration and uptake. Semi-structured interviews with key institutions and stake- holders at different levels (International, European, national and local) will help identify key evidence needs and research gaps and findings will be used to define knowledge tools and policy briefs to enhance adaptation. Furthermore, current policies on adaptation in Europe and how health issues are addressed, especially taking into account the Next Generation EU (NGEU) funding in support of COVID-19 recovery as well as Green Deal and Climate Action, will be reviewed to ensure ENBEL products fit the EU policy agenda. Conclusions: ENBEL offers an opportunity to produce targeted research syntheses for decision makers as well an ensuring health becomes a key aspect in climate change policy decision making. The ENBEL project will engage with key decision makers involved in climate change and health adaptation across Europe, providing knowledge, understanding interlin- kages and identifying areas for action to promote climate policies that enhance health benefits. Improving Health through Green Deal and Climate Pact (motivation for WB Region) Marija Jevtic M Jevtic 1,2,3 , C Belis 4 , C Bouland 3 1 Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia 2 Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 3 Universite ´ Libre de Bruxelles, Research Centre on Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium 4 European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy Contact: marija.jevtic@uns.ac.rs The WB Green Agenda (WB GA) aims to implement the GD principles in this region and has defined five priority areas: climate, energy, mobility; circular economy, pollution reduc- tion, sustainable agricultural and food production, and biodiversity. Some of the WB GA goals are strongly related to health: e.g. the continent’s carbon neutrality by 2050, the ambitious climate policy, the reform of energy and transport sectors. The launch of the EU CP is an important opportunity for the WB to promote action in this area. For instance, promoting energy efficiency and supporting building renova- tion are directly related to the quality of life and hygiene of housing. Reduction or cancellation of coal subsidies as well as the region’s withdrawal from the use of coal is of great importance for reducing externalities. In the WB, citizens are concerned about their health due to air, water and soil pollution and their reduction is in the common interest. To that end, it is necessary, inter alia, to: ratify the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its protocols in each of the WB economies; to implement air quality strategies; and to strengthen air quality monitoring systems (and network accreditation). Appropriate processes are needed to reduce water and soil pollution, as well as to ensure the transforma- tion of the agricultural sector. It is also necessary to harmonize the agricultural and food sector with EU standards for food safety, plant and animal health and environmental protection. To achieve the WB GA goals it is important to develop policy strategies based on the most up-to-date scientific studies for this region (JRC, 2020). On the basis of the analysis presented in this study we conclude that the processes associated with the GD and the CP will be of benefit for both individual and public health in the EU and in the WB. 2.F. Workshop: Informing COVID-19 responses with longitudinal studies: demonstrating harmonised data infrastructure Organised by: EUPHA-EPI Chair persons: Srinivasa Katikireddi (UK), Tea Lallukka (Finland) Contact: michael.green@glasgow.ac.uk Longitudinal studies which have collected information from participants repeatedly over time have the potential to provide timely intelligence to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK has a rich resource of population-based longitudinal studies, which have now collected information during the COVID-19 pandemic. These include multiple national birth cohort studies going back to 1946, the Understanding Society household panel study, ageing cohorts such as the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and regional cohorts such as ALSPAC, Born in Bradford and Generation Scotland. The UK is therefore well placed to combine COVID-19 surveys with rich pre-pandemic information and provide timely insight into how the pandemic is affecting people with different back- grounds and circumstances. Similar longitudinal studies exist in many other European countries. In this workshop, we will illustrate the potential for collaborative approaches to analys- ing longitudinal datasets - an approach which could be applied elsewhere in Europe and indeed, across European countries. Four papers present important evidence on health inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic, each addressing a single topic in up to a dozen longitudinal surveys. Results are meta- analysed showing findings overall and stratified by socio- demographic characteristics. This represents a collaborative effort under the Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing strand of the National Core Studies initiative in the UK: an important advance methodologically, in addition to the substantive value of the questions addressed. Co-ordinated analyses across multiple studies can act as replication for each other and/or differences in study designs and assumptions can be informa- tive, e.g., by comparing findings in cohorts of respondents at different life-stages. While improving understanding of inequalities in the public health impacts of the pandemic, this effort is also building a strong foundation for future multi- iii46 European Journal of Public Health, Volume 31 Supplement 3, 2021 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/31/Supplement_3/ckab164.116/6405411 by guest on 20 December 2022