Health communities worldwide require better support for the collection and distribution of information regardingthe factors that could affect individuals' health or contribute to the propagation of diseases. Environmental factors,such as climate change, can influence several diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, Africantrypanosomiasis, dengue fever and yellow fever. Water and air pollution can play a role in the transmission ofbacterial and fungal diseases like cholera, meningitis and coccidioidomycosis (yellow fever).In order to identify precisely how space-based technologies could support global e-Health solutions, with anoutlook towards 2030, a group of postgraduate students from the International Space University (ISU) studied thistopic in 2011 under the format of a team project. The outcome of this report will be presented in the paper. The focusof the team is to look into the creation of a roadmap to the year 2030 and a framework (presented as a web platform).The roadmap aims to establish the different steps to provide users with solutions and information to strengthen theircapacity in managing health issues with local or global consequences. This shall use space-based systems such asnavigation, Earth observation and telecommunications, alongside terrestrial data resources to support currenthealthcare needs. Data available from space based and alternate resources shall be integrated within a framework toefficiently address the pertinent health issues affecting populations around the world. The aim is to create aframework that can be updated upon development of relevant new technologies. The framework for this system shallinclude the structure, operations, and evolution. Emphasis shall be given to international cooperation for resourceutilization.
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