Climate change, urbanisation, chemical pollution and disruption of ecosystems, including biodiversity loss, affect our health and wellbeing. Research is crucial to be able to respond to the current and future challenges that are often complex and interconnected by nature. The HERA Agenda, summarised in this commentary, identifies six thematic research goals in the environment, climate and health fields. These include research to 1) reduce the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on health and environment, 2) promote healthy lives in cities and communities, 3) eliminate harmful chemical exposures, 4) improve health impact assessment and implementation research, 5) develop infrastructures, technologies and human resources and 6) promote research on transformational change towards sustainability. Numerous specific recommendations for research topics, i.e., specific research goals, are presented under each major research goal. Several methods were used to define the priorities, including web-based surveys targeting researchers and stakeholder groups as well as a series of online and face-to-face workshops, involving hundreds of researchers and other stakeholders. The results call for an unprecedented effort to support a better understanding of the causes, interlinkages and impacts of environmental stressors on health and the environment. This will require breakdown of silos within policies, research, actors as well as in our institutional arrangements in order to enable more holistic approaches and solutions to emerge. The HERA project has developed a unique and exciting opportunity in Europe to consensuate priorities in research and strengthen research that has direct societal impact.

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欧洲视角的环境、气候和健康研究重点

气候变化、城市化、化学污染和生态系统破坏（包括生物多样性丧失）影响着我们的健康和福祉。研究对于能够应对当前和未来的挑战至关重要，这些挑战通常是复杂且相互关联的。本评论总结的 HERA 议程确定了环境、气候和健康领域的六个专题研究目标。这些研究包括 1) 减少气候变化和生物多样性丧失对健康和环境的影响，2) 促进城市和社区的健康生活，3) 消除有害化学物质暴露，4) 改进健康影响评估和实施研究，5) 发展基础设施、技术和人力资源，以及 6) 促进对可持续性转型变革的研究。在每个主要研究目标下都提出了许多针对研究主题的具体建议，即具体的研究目标。使用了几种方法来确定优先事项，包括针对研究人员和利益相关者群体的基于网络的调查，以及一系列在线和面对面的研讨会，涉及数百名研究人员和其他利益相关者。结果需要前所未有的努力，以支持更好地了解环境压力源对健康和环境的原因、相互联系和影响。这将需要打破政策、研究、参与者以及我们的制度安排中的孤岛，以便能够出现更全面的方法和解决方案。