Cochrane reviews and protocols in progress
Published protocol
Registration of titles, protocols in progress
- Heat-health action plans for preventing adverse health and economic outcomes (commissioned review in partnership with the World Health Organization)
- Heat-health warning systems for preventing adverse health and economic outcomes (commissioned review in partnership with the World Health Organization)
- Subsidy elimination and taxation of fossil fuels for preventing adverse climate change, air quality, health, and economic outcomes (commissioned review in partnership with the World Health Organization)
- Living evidence map of the global climate and health literature
- The CLIMA-SHO Review: A living large-language-model-updated systematic review of climate change mitigation and adaptation interventions for survival and planetary health outcomes
- Thermal stability and storage of adrenaline
Current projects
Our group is currently working on several projects (updated June 2026):
- A map of existing priority-setting exercises in health and climate change, led by Miranda Cumpston (Australia) - protocol here.
- Overview of search sources for climate-health topics. This is led by Maria-Inti Metzendorf (Germany).
- Supporting Cochrane systematic review production:
- Miranda Cumpston is an Associate Editor for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Maria-Inti Metzendorf is Proposal Editor for topics around Planetary Health for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; and Maria-Inti Metzendorf and Denise Thomson are Peer Reviewers for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
- We support author teams who want to conduct, or who are conducting, systematic reviews on planetary health topics or who want to implement planetary health considerations into their review topics.
Completed projects
In 2022 we published an editorial on the Cochrane Library, "Protecting human health in a time of climate change: how Cochrane should respond," outlining how Cochrane can help meet decision-makers' needs in the area of the health impacts of climate change.
In 2023 a publication led by three students in our group - Tara Chen, Julia Sharobim and Omolola Alede - with support from Denise Thomson and Dr. Thanya Pathirana, was published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine: Chen, T. T.-W., D. Thomson, J. Sharobim, O. T. Alade and T. Pathirana (2024). "Integrating a climate lens into the design of education programmes for health professionals." BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 29(3): 203. DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112397
The findings of the project, "Development and validation of PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE search filters for exposure pathways linking climate change with human health," a working group project led by Maria-Inti Metzendorf and involving group members m Ina Monsef, Katherine Jones, L Susan Wieland, Heidrun Janka, Camila Escobar Liquitay and Denise Thomson are now available on Medrxiv: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.07.24308606v1.
2023-2026: Developing standards and models for describing the interaction of climate and health in global official statistics. A three-year project with the Office of National Statistics of the National Health Service in the UK, titled, "Developing standards and models for describing the interaction of climate and health in global official statistics." Our group contributed expertise in evidence synthesis to this initiative. Principal contributors were Denise Thomson (Canada) and Richard Webster (Canada).
Publications (CPHTG members' names bolded)
Chen, T. T.-W., Thomson, D., Sharobim, J., Alade, O. T., & Pathirana, T. (2024). Integrating a climate lens into the design of education programmes for health professionals. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, 29(3), 203. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112397
Loftus, M.J., Cumpston, M.S., Barnes, S. et al. Efficacy and safety of different inhaler types for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. a systematic review and meta-analysis. npj Prim. Care Respir. Med. 36, 18 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-026-00488-4
Piggott, T., P. Saadat, A. Herrmann, A. Tetelbom Stein, A. J. Darzi, A. Haines, A. Bognanni, B. Sousa-Pinto, C. Michels, E. A. Akl, E. Poluzzi, E. Senerth, E. Madrid, F. Barbic, F. de’Donato, F. Nonino, G. E. Vist, I. Neumann, J. Bracchiglione, J. Bousquet, J. J. Meerpohl, J. M. Antó, K. A. Scahill, K. Qiu, K. Miersch, K. M. Saif-Ur-Rahman, L. Vasanthan Thinagaran, L. Benton, L. Schwingshackl, M. R. Siedler, M. M. Bala, M.-I. Metzendorf, M. Aloosh, M. Cinquini, M. Cumpston, N. Skoetz, O. Oloyede, P. Alonso-Coello, P. Dahm, Q. Wang, R. J. Vieira, R. L. Morgan, S. Murthy, S. Hofstede, S. Laot-Cabon, T. Thomander, U. Siebert, G. I. Leontiadis and H. Schünemann (2026). "Integrating Planetary Health in Health Guidelines (GRADE Guidance 46)." Annals of Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-25-04761
Saadat, P., Herrmann, A., Sousa-Pinto, B., Michels, C. T. J., Thomson, D., Senerth, E., Leontiadis, G., Drew, J., Anto, J. M., Scahill, K., Miersch, K., Benton, L., Metzendorf, M.-I., Vieira, R. J., Bousquet, J., Schünemann, H., Piggott, T., & Group, G. P. H. P. (2026). Planetary Health in Health Guidelines: Expert Workshop Report 2024. Clinical and Public Health Guidelines, 3(2), e70072. https://doi.org/10.1002/gin2.70072
Thomson, D., Sebastianski, M., Nuspl, M., Green, M., Ingole, V., Flower, G., Brown, A., Glickman, M., & Webster, R. J. (2025). Climate change and global health outcome indicators: A scoping review. Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 41(2), 911-922. https://doi.org/10.1177/18747655251342655
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