Rachel Lowe is an ICREA Research Professor and Global Health Resilience Group Leader at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. She also holds a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Rachel’s research involves co-developing policy-relevant methodological solutions to enhance surveillance, preparedness and response to climate-sensitive disease outbreaks and emergence. Her published work has focussed on the viability of integrating seasonal climate forecasts in early warning systems for infectious diseases in Latin America, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. She was the director of the Lancet Countdown in Europe between 2021-2024.