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.
Dr. Pablo Sarricolea, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Geography at the University of Chile presents a talk titled, "Urban Climate in Chilean Cities and Socioeconomic Inequalities". Dr. Sarricolea is an adjunct researcher at the Center for Climate Science and Resilience (CR), specializing in resilient cities. He is also a researcher and scientific advisor at the Copernicus Regional Centre in Chile. His research, focused on urban climatology and climate change, uses geomatics and remote sensing techniques to explore socio-climatic inequalities within Chilean cities"
Dr. Stella Hartinger, Associate Professor at Cayetano Heredia University in Peru presents a talk titled, "Examining the 2023 Latin America Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change". Dr. Hartinger is Director of Lancet Countdown Latin America and co-directs CLIMA, the Center for Latin-American Research on Climate Change and Health.
Dr. Yang Liu, Gangarosa Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Emory University presents a talk titled, "The Health Impact of Exposure to Wildland Fires". Dr. Liu is a science team member of the NASA EVI-3 MAIA investigation and the Terra MISR mission, and a PI member of the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team (HAQAST), and director of the NIH-funded Climate & Health Actionable Research and Translation (CHART) Center.
Dr. Nicole Errett, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington, presents a talk titled, "Challenges and opportunities for extreme heat preparedness and response in U.S. cities." Dr. Errett is the Director of the UW Center for Disaster Resilient Communities and Director of Research and Implementation at the UW Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE).
The Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH) and the Climate Change and Urban Health in Latin America Project (SALURBAL-Climate) presents a webinar featuring Dr. Aina Roca-Barceló, Climate Adaptation Advisor with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with the Humanitarian Action for Climate and the Environment (HACE) team, where she is co-leading an important initiative to design and implement MSF’s first systematic heat response plans. Dr. Roca-Barceló holds a PhD from the Imperial College London.
Dr. Horacio Riojas, Director of Environmental Health Department at the Center for Population Health Research in the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, presents a talk titled, "Climate Research and Action: Strategies from the National Institute of Public Health in Mexican Cities". Dr. Riojas's research focuses on outdoor and indoor air pollution, and health, health risk assessment, neurocognitive impact of metals and climate change and air pollution.
Dr. Stefanie Ebelt, Professor of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, presents a talk titled, "Climate Sensitive Hazards and Health Risks in Urban Populations: Lessons from the South". Dr. Ebelt leads several large-scale population-based studies of ambient air quality and acute morbidity, utilizing administrative health data such as emergency department visit and hospitalization records.
Juan Jose Castillo, Regional Air Quality Advisor at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) presents a talk titled ‚ "Advancing Integrated Action on Health, Climate, and Air Quality: An Overview of PAHO City-Level Technical Cooperation". This webinar describes how PAHO cooperates with health officers in the Americas and the Caribbean to build capacities towards addressing the air pollution burden of disease.
Crowd-Sourced Climate Change and Health Educational Resources Collection Submission Form
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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)
