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Teaching Resources & Lesson Materials

American College of Physicians - Climate Change Toolkit 

 

American Public Health Association (infographics) 

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CDC: Climate Effects on Health: This website provides information regarding climate change issues and the direct human health impacts each has. It serves as a resource for focusing on national and regional health topics including, diseases carried by vectors, air pollution, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and other food and water related topics.

 

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare - Education for Sustainable Healthcare 

 

Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education 

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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - Climate Change and Human Health Lesson Plans 

 

Planetary Health Alliance – Planetary Health Education 

 

Sustainable Quality Improvement – Teach SusQI Resources 

 

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Climate and Health Guidance & Trainings

Climate & Health Education Publications

2023

Brand G, Wise S, Bedi G, Kickett R. Embedding Indigenous knowledges and voices in planetary health education. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2023; 7(1),: e97-e102. Doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00308-4 

 

Bray L, Meznikova K, Crampton P, Johnson T. (2023) Sustainable healthcare education: A systematic review of the evidence and barriers to inclusion, Medical Teacher, 45:2, 157-166, DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2022.2110052  

Dunne H, Jones A, Okorie M. Combatting climate change using education and training in pharmacology and therapeutics. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2023; 89 (5): 1518- 1520. doi:10.1111/bcp.15705 

 

Gepp S, Jung L, Wabnitz K, et al. The Planetary Health Academy – a virtual lecture series for transformative education in Germany. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2023; 7(3): e68-e76. Doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00253-4 

 

Howard C, MacNeill AJ, Hughes F, et al. Learning to treat the climate emergency together: social tipping interventions by the health community. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2023; 7(3): e251-e264. Doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00022-0 

 

Mathers A, Fan S, Austin Z. Climate change at a crossroads: Embedding environmental sustainability into the core of pharmacy education. Canadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada. 2023;156(2):55-59. doi:10.1177/17151635231152882 

 

Stanford V, Barna S, Gupta D, Mortimer F. Teaching skills for sustainable health care. The Lancet Planetary Health (2023), 7: e64–67, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00330-8 

Webb J, Raez-Villanueva S, Carriere PD, et al. Transformative learning for a sustainable healthy future through ecosystem approaches to health: insights from 15 years of co-designed ecohealth teaching and learning experiences. The Lancet Planetary Health (2023), 7:e86-e96, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00305-9 

 

2022

Dunne, H., Rizan, C., Jones, A. et al. Effectiveness of an online module: climate-change and sustainability in clinical practice. BMC Med Educ 22, 682 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03734-8 

 

Lapatto-Reiniluoto O, Siven M, Backman JT, Torronen A. Medicines, environment and clinical pharmacology. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology. 2022; 131(2):149-152. https://doi.org/10.1111/bcpt.13757 

 

 

2021

Shaw E, Walpole S, McLean M, et al. AMEE Consensus Statement: Planetary health and education for sustainable healthcare. Med Teach. 2021;43(3):272-286. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1860207.  

 

Guzmán CAF, Aguirre AA, Astle B, et al. A framework to guide planetary health education. Lancet Planet Heal. 2021;5(5):e253-e255. doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(21)00110-8 

 

Philipsborn R, Sheffield P, White A, Osta A, Anderson M, Bernstein A. Climate Change and the Practice of Medicine: Essentials for Resident Education. Academic Medicine 96(3):p 355-367, March 2021. | DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003719 

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Gahbauer A, Gruenberg K, Forrester C, et al. Climate care is health care: A call for collaborative pharmacy action. J Am Coll Clin Pharm. 2021;4:631–638. DOI: 10.1002/jac5.1412  

 

Roy C. The pharmacist’s role in climate change: A call to action. Can Pharm J. 2021;154(2):74-75. DOI: 10.1177/1715163521990408  

 

2020

Mammino L. Computational chemistry for green design in chemistry and pharmacy: Building awareness in the classroom. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy. 2020; 18: 100283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scp.2020.100283 

 

Schwerdtle PN, Maxwell J, Horton G, et al. 12 tips for teaching environmental sustainability to health professionals. Med Teach. 2020; 42(2):150–155. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2018.1551994 

 

Shea B, Knowlton K, Shaman J. Assessment of Climate-Health Curricula at International Health Professions Schools. JAMA Network Open. 2020;3(5):e206609. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.6609 

 

Siven M, Teppo J, Lapatto-Reiniluoto O, Terasalmi E, Salminen O, Sikanen T. Generation Green – A holistic approach to implementation of green principles and practices in educational programmes in pharmaceutical and medical sciences at the University of Helsinki. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy. 2020. 16: 100262.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scp.2020.100262 

 

Tun MS, Wellbery C, Teherani A. Faculty development and partnership with students to integrate sustainable healthcare into health professions education. Med Teach. 2020 Oct;42(10):1112-1118. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1796950. 

 

2018

Osama T, Brindley D, Majeed A, et al. Teaching the relationship between health and climate change: a systematic scoping review protocol. BMJ Open 2018;8:e020330. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2017-020330 

 

Stone SB, Myers SS, Golden CD, Group PHEB. Cross-cutting principles for planetary health education. Lancet Planet Heal. 2018;2(5):e192-e193. doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(18)30022-6 

 

2017:  

Gruenberg K, Apollonio D, MacDougall C, Brock T. Sustainable Pharmacy: Piloting a Session on Pharmaceuticals, Climate Change, and Sustainability within a U.S. Pharmacy Curriculum. Innov Pharm. 2017;8(4):3. doi: 10.24926/iip.v8i4.929. Epub 2017 Oct 12. PMID: 34123482; PMCID: PMC8191292. 

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Teherani A, Nishimura H, Apatira L, et al. Identification of core objectives for teaching sustainable healthcare education. Med Educ Online. 2017;22(1):1386042. doi: 10.1080/10872981.2017.1386042. 

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