Heat Resilience & Performance Centre - HRPC

26/08/2026

⏳ 1 month left to share how your community beats the heat! ☀️
Contribute to our ongoing Open Call for Traditional and Cultural Practices of Heat Management!

Why participate?
📄Contribute to mapping the landscape of heat heritage and co-creating a first-of-its-kind heat health repository in Southeast Asia
🗺️ Help inform and shape heat governance and policies in Southeast Asia
🗓️ Deadline: 18 September 2026
👉 Submit before time runs out: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/CHczauxS7j (Or scan the QR code on the post)

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Heat Resilience & Performance Centre - HRPC Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance Sunway Centre for Planetary Health Sunway University ASEAN Youth Organization

21/08/2026

Is all heat stress the same? Our gut may offer an important clue.

Imagine two people with the same increase in body core temperature. One has been sitting in a hot environment. The other has been exercising. Their bodies may be experiencing heat in very different ways.

Our latest publication explores the differences between passive and exertional hyperthermia—and what they can tell us about how heat stress affects the gut and the body.

Because when it comes to understanding heat, it's not just about how hot you get. It's also about how you got there.

Swipe to learn more. 🌡️

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore World Health Organization (WHO) World Meteorological Organization

18/08/2026

🌡️ Team HRPC & HPTRP are at !

We’re excited to be at the 21st International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics, connecting with researchers from around the world and sharing our latest and ongoing work on heat, health and human performance.

As we continue to tackle the growing challenge of heat, we look forward to exchanging ideas, building new connections and exploring opportunities for collaboration. 🌏

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore

07/08/2026

What do heat resilience and brain health have in common?

More than ever, they're becoming part of the same conversation.

At ECSS Lausanne and the inaugural ISENS Conference, HRPC Senior Research Fellow Dr. Tan Xiang Ren represented our team to explore a critical frontier: how extreme heat impacts the human brain—and how protecting neurological function can unlock human performance.

Where global research discussions are heading:
- Holistic Performance Ecosystems: Recognising brain health as the unifying link connecting sleep, nutrition, exercise, and cognitive output.
- Transdisciplinary Innovation: Fostering collaboration across fields to tackle complex health challenges.

Together, these experiences reinforced an exciting opportunity for HRPC: to deepen our understanding of how heat and humid environments affect the brain, and how strengthening brain health may help unlock new pathways to resilience, recovery and performance in a warming world.

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore

04/08/2026

31/07/2026

Protecting health and optimising human performance means constantly sharpening how we make sense of health and physiological data, and that means learning alongside the best in the world just as much as sharing our own breakthroughs.

Our Research Associate, Lin Wei, recently attended the 9th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning (ICAS) in Italy, where she presented our latest research on real-time body core temperature prediction using an arm-based sensor approach.

Beyond sharing our work, engaging with international AI leaders opened up vital new opportunities to translate cutting-edge machine learning into actionable, real-world health monitoring.

The course brought together researchers and AI experts from around the world to share the latest developments in artificial intelligence and explore how these technologies can be applied to address real-world challenges.

"This experience broadened my perspective on how advances in AI can bridge fundamental research and real-world healthcare solutions," shared Lin Wei.

We are excited to bring these global insights back to Heat Resilience & Performance Centre - HRPC as we continue to develop smarter technologies to better protect health and optimise human performance.

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore

27/07/2026

Heat is one of the most pervasive climate risk with far reaching impacts. From public health to city planning, energy and community resilience to economic productivity, heat affects every sector. Yet, it remains one of the least visible and less discussed climate risks.

This is why heat action must be brought to the forefront of the global climate agenda. 🔥

Join Assoc Prof Jason Lee, Director of the Heat Resilience & Performance Centre (HRPC), at the Climate Reality Leadership Training Singapore 2026, where he will share why heat resilience is a cornerstone of public health, climate adaptation, and systemic readiness in a warming world.

👉 Applications are now open: https://www.climaterealityproject.org/training/singapore?training_source=jasonlee



NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore

24/07/2026

The recent global heatwaves, the strong El-Nino forecasted later this year, and projected doubling of extreme heat events in Southeast Asia by 2050, are all pressing reminders that communities urgently need to move into policy and real-world protection on heat. ☀️🔥☀️ Indonesia is taking decisive action with the launch of KATALIS-HEAT project, and the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) Southeast Asia Hub is proud to support this national effort.

On 8–9 July 2026, KATALIS-HEAT was officially launched at the National Inception Meeting in Jakarta, a collaboration between the Ministry of Health, Republic of Indonesia, World Health Organization (WHO) Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health in the Western Pacific Region (ACE), WHO Indonesia, in collaboration with the GHHIN Southeast Asia Hub, Ministry of Environment Forestry, Republic of Indonesia, BMKG, with support from Rockefeller Foundation . The project will further Indonesia's understanding of heat-health risks and catalyse cross-sectoral action across national and sub-national levels of government.

Heat-health governance is a foundational pillar in turning awareness into sustained policy and action. The Hub’s Regional Hub Manager Dr Janice Ho facilitated a dedicated hands-on session on Heat-Health Governance during the Inception Meeting, utilising the Network’s Extreme Heat Risk Governance Framework and Toolkit | Global Heat Health Information Network. Together, participants mapped Indonesia’s current heat landscape, evaluating existing institutional capacities, and identifying high-impact policy levers to strengthen heat risk governance action and protect vulnerable populations.

This hands-on governance effort, and the broader KATALIS-HEAT initiative, sits at the heart of what the Hub does: translating science into action, and equipping institutions across Southeast Asia to build the long-term systems needed to safeguard public health in a warming climate.

📖 Read the full story: https://www.who.int/indonesia/news/feature-stories/item/indonesia-launches-katalis-heat-to-understand-and-address-the-health-impacts-of-extreme-heat

24/07/2026

Feeling cooler doesn't always mean your body is cooler. 🌡️

When managing extreme heat exposure, there is a vital distinction between thermal comfort (how you feel) and physiological heat strain (your body's internal thermal load).

Happy to be part of the team led by Chris Stevens to evaluate the real impact of targeted head, face, and neck cooling via a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis.

The key takeaway? Cooling the head, face, or neck improves how hot you feel, but it doesn't consistently lower internal heat strain. Pairing perceptual relief with core-cooling interventions—including structured work-rest pacing, heat acclimatisation, cold fluid hydration, and active symptom monitoring can ensure the reduction of physiological heat strain.

Read the full study in here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40355096/

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore

21/07/2026

Do you work on heat-health in Southeast Asia? 🌏

The Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) Southeast Asia Hub wants to hear from you. It only takes five minutes to tell us how the heat-health community in Southeast Asia can be supported, connected, and informed.

Answer the survey here: https://itl.ink/GHHIN-SEA-survey-FB

Confidential, quick, and your input genuinely matters. Survey closes on 28 July 2026.

Know someone working on heat-health in SEA? Tag them or share this post. The more perspectives we hear, the better we can serve the community.



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