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.
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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.
This resource is useful for anyone interested in the intersection of climate change, public health, and technology in the Philippines. It provides an overview of the CORD Forum proceedings, highlighting key discussions on dengue prevention, anticipatory action, and the application of data analytics in public health policy. It can serve as a reference for researchers, policymakers, and community leaders working on disaster risk reduction and climate-health resilience.
This open-access online module is an excellent resource for anyone interested in leptospirosis, a disease familiar to many animal and human health professionals. It helps you understand its complex epidemiology, which involves various hosts and serovars. In many countries, outbreaks of leptospirosis are linked to rainy seasons and floods. This case study will walk you through an investigation of the animal sources of a 2012 leptospirosis outbreak in western Fiji that followed a tropical storm and floods.
Example code for the estimation of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Land Surface Temperature on Google Earth Engine. Code is also provided for aggregation to the census block group.
This online course covers the projected impacts of climate change around the world and related adaptations (risk management), with particular attention to humanitarian impacts and food systems. We will cover climate risk assessment, risk perception, risk communication, and climate risk management/adaptation. In doing this, we will cover major climate impacts by sector, as well as their interactions and humanitarian implications. We will use AI in this class. Students will experiment with different methodologies to assess climate risk and identify impact modeling methodologies that are most appropriate for specific applications. Students will learn why people perceive risk differently and experiment with innovative methods to communicate risk. In the risk management section, students will critique climate change adaptation strategies and identify equity and justice implications. Each week of class will have asynchronous learning content consisting of readings, video explainers for the readings, lecture videos, discussion boards, and a weekly field trip video to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Each week will also have an experiential lab session that is held synchronously for one hour. The lab will consist of an exercise or simulation of technologies and methods related to climate impact assessment and management. There is no prior experience needed for the labs. Finally, students will produce two assignments: a climate risk assessment and a proposal for the Green Climate Fund, which is the largest global fund to address climate change. In these assignments, students will analyze risk and apply course content to propose solutions for climate change adaptation.
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