Family Health International (FHI 360)
FHI 360 is a global organization that mobilizes research, resources, and relationships so people everywhere have access to the opportunities they need to lead full and healthy lives. Our staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, climate change, economic development, civil society, gender, youth, research, technology, communication and social marketing — creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today's interrelated development challenges. Using research and evidence, FHI 360 collaborates with governments, civil society, the private sector and multilateral organizations to combat infectious diseases, improve nutrition outcomes, provide lifesaving health care, create jobs, educate women and children, prevent, mitigate and adapt to climate change and enact positive social change.
Through our health security and emerging infectious diseases work, including supporting countries’ COVID-19 responses and ensuring continuity of care and treatment adherence for people living with HIV or tuberculosis during the pandemic, coupled with our health systems strengthening and environmental efforts, FHI 360 is at the forefront of collaborating with governments, communities, civil society and the private sector to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis — implementing solutions that benefit people and planet alike. This includes taking action to reduce our own carbon footprint to achieve net-zero by 2050 or sooner.
Supporting the following commitments:
- Conduct climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments (V&As) at population level and/or health care facility level.
- Deliver a baseline assessment of greenhouse gas emissions of the health system (including supply chains).
- Develop an action plan or roadmap by a set date to develop a sustainable low carbon health system (including supply chains).
Country experience:
Burma, Cambodia, Kenya, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Philippines, Thailand