NextGenU Climate Change and Health CourseThis free and accredited Climate Change and Health Certificate course teaches about the effects of climate change on human health (through online didactics), and gives a chance to practice techniques to reduce those effects (with globally-available peers and mentors). Cosponsored by George Mason University, 350.org, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the International Society of Doctors for the Environment.
→ Learn moreBBC'S Climate Change Challenge Quiz(L2, L4) A game where you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office.
→ Play the game→ Teaching toolInfectious Disease and Climate Change: Is Climate Change Responsible for the Spread of West Nile Virus?This activity explores the connection between changing climate and West Nile Virus spread in the United States. Students will have the opportunity for basic data analysis, drafting policy recommendations, and designing monitoring plans. The activity and associated resources are provided by the Earth System Science Education Alliance.
→ Teaching toolClimate Change and Disability in California, USAOn January 17, 20, the World Institute on Disability hosted a webinar on the connection between climate change and disability in California, USA. The webinar covered the basics of climate change and disability, California's climate future, disability in 2017's natural disasters, and planning for an integrated, equitable future.
→ Watch the videoSimulation Exercises Teaching Clinical Skills and Knowledge of the Health Effects of Climate ChangeThis resource presents eleven simulation exercises. Students are eager to learn clinical skills, and existing curricula offer a range of simulated standardized patients and other active learning exercises that could be modified to provide training on climate change.
→ SimulationClimate Change and Health: An Interprofessional Response
This set of nine short slide decks that can be utilized to introduce the connection between climate change and health to health professionals. They are intended to be used by instructors and programs when teaching about the connection between climate and health in existing courses.
→ Slide deckWebinar Series: Climate Change and Migration
This series includes three webinars on the relationship between climate change and migration. The first webinar looks at the connection between climate change and armed conflict. The second webinar introduces the link between climate change and migration. The third webinar assesses the progress made in addressing climate-linked displacement since the Paris agreement.
→ Watch the videosClimate Change and Health Training ModulesThis training package on climate change and health was prepared initially in 2009 and substantially revised by a group of experts in 2014. It is a product of the collaborative effort of WHO/SEARO, WHO/WPRO, and GIZ, Bonn. The training package consists of 16 standalone modules.
→ Training moduleExtreme Weather and the Climate CrisisIn this e-book, the Climate Reality Project explains how extreme weather events are influenced by climate change and offers ways that you can get involved in the fight for solutions.
→ E-BookHealthy Planet, Healthy People A TedX Talk by Dr. Courtney Howard. For too long we've put health and the environment in different boxes. The work of our generation is to bridge the two, to understand that in fact, they belong in the same box--that planetary health defines human health--and that as we improve one, we will improve the other as well.
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Health Impact Assessment of Global Environmental ChangeThis undergraduate level course will provide students with tools to identify and address real-world global environmental and urban health issues. In addition to reading and discussing subject content to assist in understanding of the issues, students will learn skills to optimize the likelihood of affecting policy change through: 1) the Health Impact Assessment framework; 2) an introduction to environmental health modeling and spatial analysis; and 3) science communication skills. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2017.
→ Syllabus→ Weekly Course Topics and ScheduleEcosystem Approaches to Health Teaching ManualA teaching manual with sample modules and associated activities for teaching about health and environmental change produced by COPEH-Canada.
→ Español → Français → English → Read moreClimate Information for Public Health Action With a focus on infectious disease, hydro-meteorological disasters and nutrition, the book explores why, when and how data on the historical, current and future (from days to decades) climate can be incorporated into health decision-making.
→ E-BookClimate Change, Community Needs, and Public HealthThis undergraduate level course explores public health capacity building from the perspectives of a regulatory lawyer/economist and a medical educator/practitioner with a focus on climate change and pollution. The public health-law-medicine nexus is important for all three fields, but advances in one field often are not matched by changes in the other two fields. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, spring 2016.
→ SyllabusClimate Variability, Vulnerability, and Natural Disasters: A Study of Zika Virus in Mani, Ecuador Following the 2016 EarthquakeThis research article describes an emerging epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV) in Ecuador following the 2016 earthquake, which coincided with an exceptionally strong El Niño event. Authors hypothesize that the trigger of a natural disaster during anomalous climate conditions and underlying social vulnerabilities were force multipliers contributing to a dramatic increase in ZIKV cases post-earthquake.
→ Read moreGlobal Climate Change, Sustainability, and Human HealthThis University of Minnesota course introduces students to a full continuum of analytical perspectives on global climate change and its documented and projected implications for human health.
→ SyllabusOcean Habitat and Community Ecology (L2, L3) After this unit, students will be able to identify the functional roles that organisms play in ocean ecosystems. Students explore and discuss the direct and indirect impacts that ocean acidification can have on species, food web dynamics, ecosystem function, and commercial resources.
→ Teaching toolClimate Change and Health(L2, L3) Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health podcast shares an in-depth conversation about the effects of climate change and the steps we can take to reduce the damage.
→ The podcast→ Teaching toolAPHA Climate Change and Health Infographics(L2) This set of 4 infographics provide a fact-based visual summary of the pathways by which climate change affects health, focusing on rising temperatures, extreme weather, air quality and vector-borne disease.
→ The InfographicsClimate Change Is Killing Us(L2, L3) This NPR Article discusses the relationship between climate change and disease-carrying insects, in the lead up to the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris, France.
→ Read moreDrought and War Heighten Threat of Not Just 1 Famine, but 4(L2, L3, L4) In Somalia and other African countries suffering from drought and famines, lack of clean water and proper hygiene are behind massive outbreaks of communicable diseases in displaced-persons camps. Water sources that dry up in droughts cause an interlocking cycle of death more and more arrive at camps; clean water is much more important for food than survival.
→ Read moreThe Story of Solutions (L1, L2, L3) This short video explores the role of local advocacy and game-changing solutions when we think about global pollution and climate change.
→ Watch the videoBiogeochemical Cycles E-Textbook(L1, L3) This beautiful E-Textbook explores the background and basic information about biogeochemical flows and is broken into comprehensive sections.
→ E-TextbookClimate Change, Law and HealthThis course addresses the greatest challenge facing all life around the globe. The focus is on the impacts of climate change, mitigation efforts, and adaptation actions. We will highlight human health threats, and study the design and effectiveness of related policies, laws, regulations, plans, and programs. Students will use the skills and knowledge they are developing in their undergraduate majors to analyze and advocate for specific government actions for mitigating and adapting to climate change.
→ SyllabusToolkit for Integrating Climate Change into Ten High-Enrollment Law School CoursesLawyers practicing in many areas require knowledge and skills related to climate change. While climate-related laws, regulations and cases appear in environmental and natural resources law courses and
are the focus of seminars in some schools, these offerings reach relatively few law students. This Article presents a toolkit of climate-related cases and other readings organized by law school course subject, proposes questions to guide students in the readings and class discussions, and suggests actions for law professors and lawyers around the United States and globally.
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