Healthcare Leadership for Climate Change

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What are the intersections between the climate challenge and human health? How can we as individuals and communities use our experiences to address climate change? What does it mean to be a climate-smart leader in healthcare? In this three course specialization, you develop climate fluency skills to integrate climate change science and solutions into your personal and professional life. Focused on healthcare professionals, administrators, students, trainees, and anyone interested in the intersection between health and climate, this specialization will teach you skills for the present moment and how to engage and successfully navigate future challenges. Taught by a diverse group of climate and environmental scientists, leadership experts, and healthcare professionals, this course series will give you a holistic approach to tackling climate and health challenges. Beginning with Climate Science for Everyone, you'll learn the foundational theories of climate science that will lay the groundwork for understanding solution generation and implementation in the second and third courses, Environmental Leadership (a general introductory course) and Climate Health for Healthcare Professions. By the end of this course series, you'll have the confidence to integrate climate-informed approaches to patient care and pursue systems-level improvements that address climate change and its impact on human health.

Syllabus

Course 1: Climate Science for Everyone
Course 2: Environmental Leadership
Course 3: Climate and Health for Healthcare Professions

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7 hours 15 minutes
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Climate change impacts everyone — from record-breaking heat waves, to physical and mental health impacts, to food shortages. Understanding the science behind climate change provides you with the foundational knowledge necessary for taking action in your community and enhancing your career. No matter your age, job, goals, or interests, this course will enable you to meaningfully engage with one of the defining challenges facing humanity today. What is the evidence for climate change? What key concepts describe the physical science of climate change? And are there ways to predict how the climate could change in the future? This short course provides everyone an entry-level overview of climate change science, with no science background needed! By the end of the course, you should be able to explain the causes of climate change and its impacts. Along the way, you’ll be given opportunities to consider how to apply this knowledge in your own life or career. Learning about climate science is the first step in your journey to becoming a more engaged global citizen as you help determine our planet’s future.
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11 hours 21 minutes
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What does it mean to be an environmental leader? How can we inspire others to achieve common goals to combat challenges like climate change? This short course provides an entry-level overview of timeless and timely leadership principles and how to apply them to environmental contexts in your own life. No matter your interests, age, career, or goals, you can make a difference. No prerequisites are needed for this course. To combat climate change, protect our environment, and develop sustainable communities, we must all engage in environmental leadership. Addressing today’s complex environmental issues requires us to view leadership less as a responsibility associated with any one position or person, and rather a call for collective action. Through this course, you will learn how to develop competencies and relationships that will help you work with others to understand the interconnectedness of systems and accomplish goals across boundaries. All kinds of leaders are needed to tackle the environmental and climate challenges that we face as a global society. By the end of the course, you will explore concepts of environmental leadership and how you might apply them in your own community or organization. By growing your leadership skills, you will be more fully equipped to work with others to pave the way to a just and sustainable future.
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19 hours 1 minute
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What are the ways that climate change impacts human health? How can healthcare professionals support patients and communities to adapt to a changing climate? This short course explores the deep and complex connections between climate change and health for individuals and communities. By completing this course, students, trainees, practicing healthcare professionals and administrators will learn how to integrate climate awareness into their daily practice to inform and protect their patients and communities. While knowledge of human health is helpful, this is an introductory course with no required prerequisites. Climate change is the greatest threat to health in the 21st century, and it worsens existing inequities of health, security, and wellbeing. We’ll begin by addressing how human activity threatens planetary systems that support human health. We’ll then discuss the irony of how health systems, responsible for protecting health, also make these processes worse. To learn how to support patients and communities dealing with the impacts of climate change, you'll hear from a diverse group of healthcare experts who are already engaged in climate change and sustainability work. By the end of this course, you’ll gain skills to advocate for systems-level changes to mitigate climate change and support local resilience and adaptation. You’ll be given opportunities to think about how the concepts of this course can be applied to your own professional or personal context — no matter where you are in your healthcare career. By engaging with the intersection between climate and health, you will be more fully equipped to support your patients, colleagues, and community to build a more sustainable healthcare system.