• Establish a Pakistan Climate-Health Resilience Facility to channel international climate finance (e.g., GCF, Adaptation Fund) for strengthening public health systems against heatwaves, floods, and vector-borne diseases.
• Scale up community-based health resilience programmes by integrating climate risk awareness and early warning into the existing Lady Health Worker (LHW) and community health worker (CHW) models.
• Deploy mobile health and telemedicine units in climate hotspots and flood-affected areas to sustain essential services when access is disrupted.
• Strengthen health supply chains for climatic shocks by pre-positioning essential medicines, oral rehydration salts (ORS), vaccines, and vector-control kits in vulnerable districts.
• Launch a National Climate and Health Research Agenda with cross-sectoral funding to support data-driven decision-making and evidence-based policy.
• Integrate climate-health modules into higher education curricula (medical, environmental sciences, public policy, and urban planning) along with targeted research fellowships.
• Establish university-based Climate and Health Data Hubs that integrate meteorological, epidemiological, and environmental data for real-time disease risk mapping and early warning.
• Mainstream nutrition and food security in health planning, promoting climate-resilient agriculture and targeted interventions for maternal and child nutrition in heat- and drought-prone areas.
• Develop national clinical and public-health protocols for managing heat stress, respiratory illnesses, and maternal/neonatal health during extreme temperature events.
• Enhance cold-chain resilience for vaccines and essential supplies through solar-powered refrigeration and real-time monitoring systems.
• Introduce digital disease surveillance tools and low-cost diagnostics for rapid detection and response to climate-sensitive diseases such as dengue, malaria, and cholera.
• Engage the private sector to ensure affordable access to water purification systems, cooling materials, and diagnostics in climate-vulnerable communities.
• Foster regional and South-South cooperation through SAARC and UN platforms for cross-border disease surveillance, emergency response, and technology transfer.
• Ensure health representation in climate policymaking and mandate the Ministry of Health’s involvement in all National Climate Change Council and NDMA-PDMA coordination mechanisms.
• Institutionalise climate-health indicators in Pakistan’s national monitoring frameworks (NDMA dashboards, Health Management Information System) to track vulnerability, preparedness, and outcomes.