Climate Change, Nutrition and Health Working Group

Teaching

1. Presence Courses

• Since 2022, the CCNH team has organized a 1-week summer school on Trends in Nutrition Epidemiology in August. In collaboration with Dr. Rainer Wild Foundation (link with website: https://www.gesunde-ernaehrung.org/startseite.html) and Foundation fiat panis (https://www.stiftung-fiat-panis.de/de/), this summer school provides in-depth understanding on methodological approaches to research on sustainable nutrition.

Please click here to view the course programme of 2023.
Please click here to view the evaluation results of 2023.

 

Please click here to view the course programme of 2022.

Please click here to view the evaluation results of 2022.

 

• Climate Change and Health for Medical Students (4 hours)
   
• Short Course: Climate Change and Health: Impact and Adaptation Strategies 2 weeks since 2009, 3 ECTS credits
   
• Short course (TropEd accredited), in French: Changement climatique dans le context Africain
  Offered together with the Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, Burkina Faso, Africa since 2011
  2 weeks, 3 ECTS credits

• Advanced research methods in Climate change and health
  Developed by RS with Umea University, 3 ECTS credits, taught in Umeå

• Special Topics in Environmental Health: Research Methods to Study the Impact of Climate Change on Health, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
  8 weeks, 2.5 ECTS, Spring 2018
  Taught by Visiting Professor Rainer Sauerborn, with teaching assisted by Dr Aditi Bunker and Sandra Barteit. The course provides hands-on skills to use existing high quality health data from Africa and Asia to analyze the impact of climate change on mortality (by cause, age and sex, location and day of death). Course teaches main statistical tool to do this, time series analysis. Hands-on part included working with daily weather data (temperature, rainfall e.g.) from publicly available sources for the chosen study area and time period. The course uses whole population, longitudinal, retrospective, long term (since 1990) high quality health cohort data (Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems) 
  More Information (Course Flyer)

2. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

1. MOOC on Research Methods for the Study of Climate Change and Health

Developed within the framework of the DFG-funded Research Unit “Climate Change and Health in sub-Saharan Africa” (link with www.cch-africa.de) to facilitate interdisciplinary research and common understanding of terminology and methodology. Available here: https://high-edu.courses/courses/course-v1:HIGH+CCH-RM+2023_T1/about

Language: English
 

2. MOOC for Climate Policy Makers: "Why health is a key argument for climate negotiations"

Developed for delegation members of the COP21, but useful for anybody interested in climate policy. As an "Executive MOOC" it is extremely short (2 days, 5 videos, plus extensive background material). Available any time HERE

Language: English
Subtitles:  Mandarin, Hindi, Indonesian, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish

3. General MOOC: "Climate change and Health"

Five weeks, a classic MOOC for anybody anywhere, first taught in February/March 2016. Available HERE.

Language: English
Subtitles:  Mandarin, Hindi, Indonesian, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, French

4. MOOC by Africans for Africans: "Changement climatique dans le context sous-saharien"

Five weeks, a classic MOOC mainly for African audiences, or those interested in health and climate change in Africa. Currently under production, will be on line in March 2015 at the Francophone platform FUN (France Université Numérique)

Language: French
Subtitles: English

5. MOOC "Health - the Human Face of Climate change"

The MOOC is to be released mid-October 2018 on edX and hosts among others Gina McCarthy, Fransesca Dominici, Austin Blackmon, Heather Henriksen, Chris Golden, Sam Myers, Paul Farmer, Erin Mordecai, John Mandyck and many more - so stay tuned. 

Language: English