TWAS has announced an opening for consultant position for the TWAS-Rockefeller Initiative for Transformative Heat-Health Science. 

The global climate crisis has led to an increased frequency and intensity of extreme heat events such as heat waves and heat domes. This has made heat stress a growing threat to human health worldwide. TWAS, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, is launching the TWAS-Rockefeller Initiative for Transformative Heat-Health Science in order to respond to this challenge. The initiative aims to integrate expertise across disciplines and to push them beyond isolated research efforts by identifying knowledge gaps, formulating cross‑cutting questions, and examining the methodologies needed to connect diverse scientific domains. The core will be an interactive think-tank workshop that will convene world-leading experts from diverse fields—including thermal physiology, molecular biology, climate science, public health, social sciences, and policy—to collectively map the gaps and define new directions for transformative heat‑health research.

The closing date for applications is 3 March 2026. More information on the position and the project, and instructions on how to apply, can be found here.