Southeast Asia

Why Southeast Asia

South and Southeast Asia are among the most climate-vulnerable regions in the world due to a combination of high population density, coastal exposure, monsoon dependence, and rapidly changing land use. Climate variability and change are reshaping disease dynamics, particularly for vector-borne and waterborne diseases, across the region.

The Southeast Asia observatory focuses on building systematic linkages between climate exposure data and health outcome surveillance — a critical gap in many countries in the region where both data types exist but are rarely integrated.

Data & Analytic Focus

A central focus of the Southeast Asia observatory is the systematic alignment of climate exposure data with health outcome data. This work builds directly on CGHI’s data infrastructure tools and approaches, adapted for the specific data landscape of the region — including national disease surveillance systems, meteorological networks, and satellite-derived products.