📅 20 – 21 May 2025
Online
Humanity is confronted with fast-changing environmental disruptions impacting the health and well-being of people worldwide. The complexity and interconnectedness of climate-related health risks threaten gains accomplished for public health and sustainable development globally.
The climate crisis has built up to a global health emergency affecting particularly the most vulnerable populations in low-resource and humanitarian contexts where an overlap of climate and humanitarian crisis exists. While health systems are struggling to keep pace with the rising number of disasters, there is a deep discrepancy between climate-related health demands and the responsive, adaptive capacity of public health systems and stakeholders leaving the health needs of the most vulnerable unmet.
Globally, health actors and health systems are challenged with a new dimension of health risks and frequently recurring system shocks of climate-related disasters, droughts, floods, food insecurity, heat waves, infectious disease, migration, and armed conflicts.
How can human health be protected in a changing climate? Which concepts, measures, and tools exist to address arising challenges and health threats?
Using a system approach this two-day workshop combines theoretical lectures and practical case studies, group work, and discussion. Participants will learn how climate change affects human health and health systems, especially in low-resource and humanitarian contexts. They will be enabled to apply a planetary health lens to their work, to consider public health in dependency on environmental and social determinants, to strengthen climate and environment-resilient health systems, and to support efforts to reduce the environmental footprint of health systems.
The course requires basic knowledge of climate change adaptation (it is possible to attend first our introductory course: Introduction to Main Concepts and Terminologies in Climate Change Adaptation, but it is not obligatory).
