Robert Deck
Cities all across the world are under increasing pressure to create mitigation plans for every sector to address the effects of climate change. By 2050, 70% of the world's population is anticipated to live in cities, making the development of robust health systems in these contexts a considerable task.Urban Heat Islands (UHI) are created when cities' surface temperatures are much higher than those of the nearby rural areas due to their physical makeup. The negative health effects of heat and pollution in cities which are related with UHI have received a lot of attention, but mosquito-borne diseases have largely gone unaddressed. The World Health Organization, on the other hand, estimates that one of the primary consequences of global warming will be an increase in the burden of mosquito-borne diseases, many of which have an urban component to their epidemiology, and thus the global population exposed to these pathogens will steadily increase. Current health mitigation techniques, such as those for heat and pollution, may, however, be harmful to mosquito-borne illnesses.