Certificate of Achievement

Ciaran G. Parker

has completed the following course:

The Impact of Climate Change on Public Health

EIT

This online course explored the impact of climate change on public health. It examined both the direct and indirect ways climate impacts health around the globe, methods used to evaluate climate data, and how to campaign for changes to behaviours or policies, at both a local and regional level.

4 weeks, 4 hours per week

Edward Meinert

Sir David Cooksey Fellow in Healthcare Translation

University of Oxford

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Recognise the relationship between climate change and health and the associated themes and trends.
  • Understand the nature of complex problems resulting from interconnected social, political, and climate change issues, and the associated challenges.
  • Articulate key public health concepts related to climate change and describe how they are likely to exacerbate existing problems of social and health inequality.
  • Analyse the continuously emerging and publically available data for climate/health using applicable methods and tools for examining big data.
  • Evaluate the impact of implementing a specific action (locally, regionally, nationally, internationally) on a specific health indicator.
  • Identify your own role as a climate change campaigner and the ways to overcome personal, social, political or organisational barriers to change.
  • Create an action plan to effect change further to insight (e.g. from data and collaboration)

Syllabus

  • What are the climate change themes and trends in relation to public health and is there anything we can do to improve things?
  • Who are the key contributors to climate change, what are they doing and how are their harmful activities being countered?
  • How can we prove that the impact on health is linked to climate change?
  • How to implement an action plan to improve health outcomes impacted by climate change

Issued on 29th July 2019

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Free online course:

The Impact of Climate Change on Public Health

EIT