Description
Climate Change, Health & Health Systems is a full year, half credit course, available to students who wish to receive academic credit for participating in the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care‘s Student Training Program – by completing additional requirements.
The Student Training Program (STP) supports graduate and professional students and trainees from across the University of Toronto to develop expertise and interdisciplinary and collaborative capacities for sustainability in health, understood to include climate and health, planetary health, One Health, ecohealth, political ecology of health, sustainable healthcare, and climate resilient health systems.
Students participate in six evening sessions of the STP for didactic content, meeting with local experts and engaging with an interdisciplinary cohort of their peers; STP students are also required to attend the October 23rd Climate & Health Conference (registration fee will be waived), and are strongly encouraged to participate in other activities of the Collaborative Centre, such as the seminar series. Students taking the course for credit attend an additional four evening sessions for interactive discussion of assigned readings, and complete additional individual and group work.
Students who have been admitted to the Student Training Program can elect to take the course for credit. Where space permits, students wishing to take the course who missed the deadline to apply to the Student Training Program can be retroactively admitted to the STP.
Objectives
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Identify the health and health system challenges posed by climate and environmental change
- Develop skills to use diverse forms of evidence, and collaborative capacities, to assess health & equity impacts of global ecological change, and inform climate action and sustainability for health and health systems
- Build an appreciation for the diversity of knowledge, evidence, and worldviews in this growing field
- Gain exposure to academics and practitioners who are leading work in this field
- Participate in a cohort of like-minded students to contribute to and shape the field
- Have an opportunity to collaborate and network with experts, knowledge users and leaders
Instructors
Evaluation Breakdown
- Participation
- 10%
- Individual project – Outline
- 5%
- Individual project – Presentation
- 15%
- Individual project – Final paper
- 30%
- Group project – Review paper
- 20%
- Group project – Presentation
- 5%
- Group project – Final submission & reflection
- 15%