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Caribbean Climate and Health Responders Course

06/04/2022 08/06/2022

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Price information

free

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Event location

Online (Zoom)

The Caribbean Climate and Health Responders Course is a 10-week free online certificate course committed to providing health care professionals with the knowledge and tools to effectively respond to the climate and health crisis in their local communities throughout the Caribbean region.

The effects of climate change are already affecting morbidity, mortality, and society’s abilities to deliver healthcare around the world, and its impacts will only intensify in the coming years. Climate change is also connected to the socially and economically burdensome epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) of Caribbean countries. To meet these challenges, current and future health professionals globally must understand the dynamics governing the interactions of climate and health, the level of scientific understanding of those interactions, and potential adaptation, mitigation, and resilience-building solutions.

Target Audience

Health Professionals, Health Leaders, Environmental Health Professionals, Disaster and Emergency Professionals, Climate Leaders and Students

Course Objectives

  1. Increase health professionals’ knowledge, self-efficacy and communication skills related to the climate crisis so they may both: 1) improve patient care and public health practice and 2) serve as their health community’s trusted messengers within their institutions, communities, and fields of practice

  2. Equip interested health professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to educate their institutions’ own learners so that health effects of climate change and emergency preparedness can be incorporated more easily into pre- and post-licensure training across the globe.  

  3. Build and strengthen an agile and informed community around climate and health education, advocacy, and policy for health professionals with strong mentorship and expert support

 Two Part Course Structure

1) Weekly 90-minute didactic sessions with expert presenters and moderated Q&A sessions @ 6:00 p.m. AST, 5:00 p.m. EST

Main Session Topics: (speaker information coming soon!)

  1. April 6th - Climate Change for the Health Professional

  2. April 13th - Extreme Weather Hazards: Hurricanes

  3. April 20th - Water-and Food Related Illness (Flooding & Drought)

  4. April 27th - Temperature Related Illness and Mortality

  5. May 4th - Degraded Air quality (Bush Fires & Urban Air Quality)

  6. May 11th -Vector-borne and Zoonotic Disease

  7. May 18th -Mental Health

  8. May 25th - Climate Change and Health Equity

  9. June 1st - Healthcare Sector Mitigation

  10. June 8th - Health System Resilience in a Changing Climate

 Main session registration

 

2) Five Skills and Practice Sessions @ 6:00 p.m. AST, 5:00 p.m. EST: 

  1. April 19th - Greening Your Health Practice

  2. April 26th - Climate and Health Communication

  3. May 10th - Clinical Case 1 

  4. May 24th - Clinical Case 2

  5. June 7th - CIMH Session 2

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Skills & Practice Registration

Lectures will be delivered by local and regional practicing experts in the field and will have accompanying reading and learning resources. In addition to the 10 core didactic sessions, participants will have the option to participate in five “Skills and Practice” sessions, structured around clinical cases, climate tools (data and research tools provided by CIMH),  communication and leadership strategies, and teaching tools.  

Session recordings will be available for asynchronous view after the live presentations for those unable to attend.

Climate and Health Certificate

Participants who successfully complete 70% of the didactic trainings (at least 7 sessions) and pass a brief assessment at the end of the 10-week training (with a score of 70% or above), will receive a certificate of participation from the GCCHE/EarthMedic.

The course is presented by the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, Earth Medic/Nurse and the Carribbean Institute of Meteorolgy and Hydrology

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