Keeping Hong Kong Safe from Heat Deaths - Heat Health Roundtables 1

10 February 2025

Heat-related deaths have risen to become the 10th leading cause of death in Hong Kong, despite being largely preventable. The programme aims to address this challenge through education at District Health Centres (DHCs) and the development of a coordinated Hong Kong Heat Health Plan. In addition, the School of Public Health organised a series of Heat Health roundtables in 2025, to strengthen preparedness ahead of future heat waves and foster a collective impact approach.

Heat Health Roundtables

•Systematic strategies to take stock of community public health assets, and ways of developing impactful changes from a bottom‑up strategy

•Modelling the Excess Mortality attributable to Heat Waves in Hong Kong

•Heat‑Health Action Plans: A Global Assessment of Urban Readiness and the Urgent Need for Action

•Multisectoral approaches to health in all policies applied to heat health action planning

•Devising a multisectoral public policy to address the comprehensive nature of Comprehensive Primary Health Care Issues