Climate Change and Health

Content

• Introduction to climate science and climate change
• Associations between climate change and human health, presentation of observed and projected health impacts (beneficial and adverse effects) and discussion of selected example
• Concepts of climate change health adaptation and climate change mitigation, incl. economics of adaptation and mitigation and health co-benefits of climate change mitigation in the health sector and in other sectors (e.g. urban planning, food production and nutrition, transport)
• Planetary Health and the case of transformation
• Current status of climate change mitigation and health adaptation on institutional, city, country and global level
• Frameworks of climate change, the health aspects of the SDG framework and planetary health with focus on interlinkages and synergies
• transformational change concepts and examples in different sectors
• concept of becoming a change agent, including examples and the opportunity to practice
• Transformational change and health co-benefits

Learning Objectives

At the end of the module, the participants will be able to:

• recognize the basic mechanisms of climate change and other key dimensions of planetary health, explain its main drivers and observed and projected consequences,
• illustrate observed and projected health impacts of climate change, present the concept of health adaptation measures and give examples,
• explain health co-benefits of climate change mitigation measures in other sectors and provide examples,
• associate the health aspect of climate change with international climate change frameworks and agreements and with the wider sustainable development and planetary health agenda,
• construct an argument for the need of transformational change in the context of climate change & planetary health, and use new methods for creating a transformational case/agenda, and
• identify the case for transformation to advocate for the climate change & health agenda and co-create a draft transformational agenda in a concrete local context/institution, jointly with key stakeholders.

Course Schedule

synchronous sessions - detailed schedule will follow

Registration

Registration is Closed.
Please note that there is a fee of 200 EUR participants from HICs/ 100 EUR participants from LMICs

The CIH^LMU Teaching and Training Unit will contact you with further information regarding payment arrangements. Registration is not complete until the course fee has been paid in full.

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations made before the registration deadline, a non-refundable fee of 25% will be charged. For cancellations made after the registration deadline until the course start, a non-refundable fee of 50% will be charged. In case of no-shows or cancellations from the start of the course, the full course fee will be charged.

Course Schedule

Total Lecture Credit hours: 30 hrs (in-person via Zoom) Total Group Activities Credit hours: 14 hrs (in-person via Zoom) Total Assignment Credit hours: 46 hrs (self-study)

Dr. Given Moonga is an epidemiologist with a PhD in International Health-Medical Research from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) CIH^LMU in Munich, Germany. He co-founded the Planetary Health East African Hub and serves as its Educational and Policy Advisor on Planetary Health. His research expertise includes nutrition and infectious disease epidemiology, spatial modeling of health outcomes, implementation research, and health inequalities. Dr. Moonga’s work advances global health initiatives and informs policies to improve health outcomes in vulnerable populations, demonstrating his commitment to addressing critical public health challenges.

Melvine A. Otieno is an Environmental Health scientist and the founder of Planetary Health Eastern Africa. As a climate change activist in Kenya, she has worked closely with KLUG- German Alliance Climate Change and Health in Climate Change and Health/Planetary Health Leadership online course-Transformational and transdisciplinary. She obtained a BSc in Environmental Biology and Health and MSc in Environmental Health at the University of Eldoret. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Global Health at Martin Luther University in Haale (Saale), Germany. She served as a Next Generation Network Fellow (2020-2023) of the Planetary Health Alliance, working to inspire, activate and convene the next generation of planetary health campus ambassadors from around the world, as well as conduct outreach to facilitate local and international collaborations.She's also an Associate team member of Women Leaders for Planetary Health. As an Early Career Researcher, Melvine has worked on several internationally funded projects as Research Assistant for Newton Utafiti fund on Aquaculture (2018-2019) and BGS-UoE-MU research on dynamics of Environmental Geochemistry and Health in the Lake Victoria Basin (2020-2022) and a Co-Investigator on the GCRF QR Time Urgency Grant, to investigate the role of wet markets and backyard livestock in supporting nutrition of preschool-aged children in Kenya: challenges from COVID-19 influenced closure (2021-2022). She is currently an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Eldoret (Kenya), School of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management where she coordinates SOPHEA project-Strengthening One and Planetary Health in Eastern Africa, funded by DAAD in partnership with JMU Würzburg University in Germany and Catholic University for Health and Allied Sciences (CUHAS) in Tanzania.

The course is conducted in collaboration with the Planetary East African Hub.