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Khushi Baby

Categories: Access to climate change funding for health, Climate change & health Vulnerability & Adaptation Assessments, Health National Adaptation Plans, Action plans for sustainable low carbon health systems

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Khushi Baby is a non-profit public health organization and technical partner to government health systems in India, with expertise directly relevant to implementation of the COP26 Health Programme commitment on climate-resilient health systems. Its Community Health Integrated Platform (CHIP) supports 60 million beneficiaries and 85,000+ frontline health workers and integrates 40+ government systems, providing digital infrastructure to embed climate-health intelligence into routine public health workflows.

Khushi Baby’s technical capabilities span climate-health vulnerability assessment, climate-informed surveillance and early warning systems, health adaptation planning, digital health systems, and translation of climate-health evidence into targeted action.

Since 2023, Khushi Baby has supported government partners across heat, vector-borne disease and air pollution. In Rajasthan, it co-developed India’s first block-level Climate Health Vulnerability Index (CHVI), integrating climate, health and socio-economic data to identify high-risk geographies and populations and inform adaptation priorities. The system includes heat-health vulnerability assessment, vector-borne disease early-warning systems and air pollution community risk mapping.

Khushi Baby supports sub-national governments to operationalize adaptation through seasonal and local action planning, health-facility preparedness, targeted frontline outreach, resource prioritization and multisectoral coordination. Officials across 40+ districts have used CHVI, establishing data-to-action mechanisms that enable health systems to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to climate-related health risks.

Supporting the following commitments:

  • Commitment 1: Conduct climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments (V&As) at population level and/or health care facility level.
  • Commitment 2: Develop a health national adaptation plan (HNAP) informed by the health V&A, which forms part of the National Adaptation Plan.
  • Commitment 3: Use the V&A and HNAP to facilitate access to climate change funding for health.
  • Commitment 6: Develop an action plan or roadmap by a set date to develop a sustainable low carbon health system (including supply chains).

Country experience:

  • India: Commitment 1