CLIMATE CHANGE, HUMAN AND PLANETARY HEALTH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize unique environmental public health challenges posed by climate change. Audience: Graduate 2. Define the planetary boundaries and describe their links to human health. Audience: Graduate 3. Define and Understand the Planetary Health framework and principles for systems-based approaches to risk management and health promotion. Audience: Graduate 4. Learn and apply a Health in All Policies strategy to demonstrate the value of more comprehensive, cross-sector disease prevention programs. Audience: Graduate 5. Critically analyze the linkages between physical and ecological conditions with human health and well-being, as well as exposure pathways through which impacts occur. Audience: Graduate 6. Develop and exhibit effective risk and/or science communication strategies related to environmental health. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize unique environmental public health challenges posed by climate change. Audience: Graduate 2. Define the planetary boundaries and describe their links to human health. Audience: Graduate 3. Define and Understand the Planetary Health framework and principles for systems-based approaches to risk management and health promotion. Audience: Graduate 4. Learn and apply a Health in All Policies strategy to demonstrate the value of more comprehensive, cross-sector disease prevention programs. Audience: Graduate 5. Critically analyze the linkages between physical and ecological conditions with human health and well-being, as well as exposure pathways through which impacts occur. Audience: Graduate 6. Develop and exhibit effective risk and/or science communication strategies related to environmental health. Audience: Graduate