CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
Employs public health, epidemiology, medical anthropology, and global public health sources to illustrate the current and future effects of climate change on health from a cross-cultural, global perspective. Critically engage with health disparities with potential solutions or mitigations to the multiple public health crises created by climate change, from possible adaptations to more radical forms of community empowerment and social justice.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the different pathways through which climate change affects human health Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify how climate change can create or reinforce preexisting health disparities Audience: Undergraduate 3. Critically assess strategies to mitigate the health effects of climate change at the community, national, and global levels Audience: Undergraduate 4. Employ a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of climate change and health Audience: Undergraduate 5. Produce written assignments reflecting on a key aspect of climate change and its effects on population health Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the different pathways through which climate change affects human health Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify how climate change can create or reinforce preexisting health disparities Audience: Undergraduate 3. Critically assess strategies to mitigate the health effects of climate change at the community, national, and global levels Audience: Undergraduate 4. Employ a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of climate change and health Audience: Undergraduate 5. Produce written assignments reflecting on a key aspect of climate change and its effects on population health Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027