Educational Resource Hub
This crowd-sourced database of educational resources is meant to encompass any tools relevant to people working in the climate and health space. This might include submissions by the content authors themselves, or simply recommendations from community members for resources they have found helpful. This collection includes only links directing users to existing resources - it is not meant to house or archive content.
Keep in mind, this is a crowd-sourced database. CAFE does not verify the quality nor endorse the use of any materials included in this database. Make sure to follow the terms of use and attribution requirements specific to each resource. If you have created or used sources that would be relevant to the community of practice, please add it to the database by entering it in the submission form below.
The `heat` R package from StanfordEchoLab makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive and optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures.
This engaging course is designed to raise awareness and deepen understanding of the One Health approach – a collaborative, multisectoral strategy that recognizes the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and the environment.
The course is structured in five concise modules, each lasting approximately 30 minutes. Learners will explore the foundations and evolution of the One Health concept, its practical applications, the critical role of the environmental sector, sources of pathogens, and the anthropogenic drivers behind disease emergence. Special attention is given to global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and emerging infectious diseases, and how these can be addressed using a One Health lens.
The Syllabus Bank from Brown University’s Climate Solutions Lab fosters and improves university-level courses on climate change in the social sciences.
Explore the syllabus bank to enrich your courses on population and climate, and contribute your own materials to expand high-quality teaching resources worldwide.
This tutorial provides code examples for working with the Health and Retirement Study from the Center for Aging, Health, & Environment (CACHE). The data is commonly used by researchers to study older adults in the United States. The survey is nationally representative of the U.S. population over age 50 and contains many questions related to aging as well as modules that capture early life exposures.
This shortlist is designed for health professionals in clinics or similar settings who are interested in practical, individual actions to advance sustainable health care in their workplace. It offers a concise set of immediate steps that promote environmentally sustainable practices and encourage clinicians to consider environmental impact in their care decisions. The document begins with five individual action areas where health professionals can take direct steps, followed by four system-level actions where they can work with or support their clinic, practice, or hospital leadership to advance sustainability initiatives and establish supportive programs.
Extreme weather events. Air pollution. Degrading water quality. A changing environment.
No matter who you are or what your role is, from health care to community organizing to parenting and beyond, everyone needs to understand how the changing environment affects health in the United States – and what can be done about it. This resource collection is a one-stop-shop for trustworthy information, tools, and tips to protect health, build resilience, and advance sustainability.
The National Academies' Roundtable on Plastics convened a workshop in May 2025 to explore circularity and other approaches for sustainable life cycle management of plastic materials to mitigate plastic pollution, including reduction of plastic waste through redesign, reuse, remaking, and recycling. This workshop specifically addressed areas of both high plastic production and waste, namely packaging, textiles, and building material sectors. Throughout, participants considered solutions including rethinking, redesign, and reuse; the use of these synergies and strategies to minimize impacts on plastic waste; and the associated effects on human and environmental health.
On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released the consensus report: Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare. This study reviews the latest scientific evidence on whether greenhouse gas emissions are reasonably anticipated to endanger public health and welfare in the United States.
Crowd-Sourced Climate Change and Health Educational Resources Collection Submission Form
Do you have a resource you’d like to share with the community in this educational resource collection? Please fill out the submission form below.
Your entry will be checked to ensure the content is appropriate, but will not be assessed for accuracy or completeness, and no other quality checks will be done.
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Please fill out the form to add a resource you think might be helpful for the climate change and health community of practice.
The type of resources that should be shared here are one of the following:
- Book or reference text (e.g. textbook or guidebook on best practices or other essential knowledge)
- Code repository (e.g. a GitHub code bank of an existing analysis)
- Online code tutorial or vignette (e.g. a walkthrough of specific code or methods with examples and explanations)
- Online course (e.g. a series of learning objectives with content and assessment)
- Video or recorded webinar (e.g. educational resources presented in video format)
