As part of a £17.5 million British Pound initiative to support heat adaptation research, the Wellcome Trust funded our community randomized control trial (cRCT) evaluating the effects of cool roofs on health, environmental and economic outcomes.

The CARE Lab joins a multidisciplinary group of global researchers in Burkina Faso, India, Niue and Mexico to assess the effects of affordable, sunlight-reflecting cool-roof coatings — an effective home cooling intervention — on health, environmental and economic outcomes for vulnerable populations. The findings will inform global adaptation and policy responses to increasing heat exposure from climate change.