Medical

Guides and Toolkits

• American College of Physicians, "Climate Change Toolkit", 2022

• Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Climate Change Toolkit for Health Professionals, 2019

• Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS) Health and Environment Adaptive Response Task force (HEART) Planetary Health Toolkit - Google Drive repository

• Health Care Without Harm, Climate change, health, and health care: How physicians can help

• Healthcare Without Harm, No Vaccine for Climate Change - A Guidance Document on Climate Change and Health Impacts in India - Note this resource is specific to India

• International Federation of Medical Students' Associations, “IFMSA Training Manual on Climate & Health”, 2016

• Medical Schools Council, EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE - A curriculum for the UK

• MS4SF, "Guide to Climate and Health Curriculum Reform in Medical Schools", Medical Students for a Sustainable Future, 2023

• TelessaúdeRS-UFRGS, "Materials for planetary health education", 2022 (Português and English)

Lesson Plan/Modules

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "A Clinical Health Care Student Exploration of the Global Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health", 2018

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "A Clinical Health Care Student Exploration of the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States", 2018

• Royal College of Psychiatrists, eLearning Hub, eLearning resources and modules for mental health professionals

Case Studies

• Mental Health Case Studies with Discussion Questions, 4th Annual Clinical Climate and Health Conference, 2021

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "A Clinical Health Care Student Exploration of the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States Clinical Case Studies", 2018

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "A Clinical Health Care Student Exploration of the Global Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health Clinical Case Studies", 2018

• One Health Case Studies, University of Washington and Stanford University, 2023

• MEDICINE FOR A CHANGING PLANET, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and the University of Washington, 2023. A collection of clinical case studies to be used in the clinical phase of training for medical professionals since they focus on clinical competencies regarding the impact of environmental change on the patient care setting and the role of clinicians in detecting and managing the impacts of those changes on their patients.

Climate Curriculum Papers

• The Journal of Climate Change and Health. Integrating climate change education into board certification for pediatricians: A model for other specialties. 2022 Feb.

• Affleck A, et al. Accelerating the implementation of planetary health medical curricula to prepare future physicians to work in a climate crisis. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 2022 Jan.  

• The Journal of Climate Change and Health. Integrating climate change education into board certification for pediatricians: A model for other specialties. 2022 Feb.

• Perspective/Opinion: Climate and Health Curriculum Development: Mental Health Impacts and Responses. Polaack, Haase. 

Textbooks

• Lemery J, Knowlton K, Sorensen C. Global Climate Change and Human Health: Science to Practice. John Wiley & Sons; 2021. (ISBN: 9781119667957)

• Friel S. Climate Change and the People's Health. New York: Oxford University Press; 2019. (ISBN-13: 978-0190492731)

• Marselle MR, Stadler J, Korn H, Irvine KN, Bonn A (eds). Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change. Springer International Publishing; 2019. (ISBN: print-978-3-030-02317-1; open access-978-3-030-02318-8)

• Cole J. Planetary Health: Human Health in an Era of Global Environmental Change. CABI; 2019. (ISBN: 9781789241648)

• DiPrete Brown L. Foundations for Global Health Practice. Hoboken: Jossey-Bass; 2018. (ISBN: 978-1-118-50556-4) (See Chapter 10: “Climate and Health”)

• Lemery J, Auerbach P. Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield; 2017. (ISBN-13: 978-1442243(Ge187)

• (General) Butler CD (ed). Climate Change and Global Health. Wallingford: CABI; 2016. (ISBN-13: 978-1-78064-265-9)

• Frumkin H (ed). Environmental Health: from Global to Local. 3rd ed. Hoboken: Jossey-Bass; 2016. (ISBN-13: 978-1-118-98476-5)

• Butler CD, Dixon J, Capon AG (eds). Health of People, Places and Planet. Reflections based on Tony McMichael’s four decades of contribution to epidemiological understanding. Canberra: ANU Press. (ISBN: print-9781925022407; open access-9781925022414)

Slides

General

• Slides available on various climate and health topics from The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health Annual Meetings
• Slides available on various climate and health topics from the Fourth National Climate Assessment, prepared by the U.S. Global Change Research Program staff
• Slides available on various climate and health topics from the Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Sept 20-21, 2015

Heat

• Lance Wood, M. Keehn, M. Huffman, and E. Santos, “Houston Heat-Related Illness and Apparent Temperature”, 98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Jan 10, 2018

Air Pollution

• Bonne Ford, K. O'Dell, R. Gan, J. Liu, W. Lassman, M. Burke, G. Pfister, A. Vaidyanathan, J. Volckens, S. Magzamen, E. V. Fischer, and J. R. Pierce, “Smoke Exposure and Associated Health Effects across Several Fire Seasons and Locations in the Western United States”, 98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Jan 8, 2018
• J. Jason West, “Connecting Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Human Health”, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Jan 5, 2016

Infectious Diseases

• Samantha Ahdoot, “Of Mice, Men and Mosquitoes: Vector-Borne Infections in a Changing Climate”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Sept 20-21, 2015

Clinical Practice

• International Medical Education Collaboration on Climate and Sustainability. Open source educational content for integration into medical curriculum.
• American College of Physicians, "Climate Change and Health: A Global Call to Action"
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "A Clinical Health Care Student Exploration of the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States Slides", 2018
• Jessica Wolff, “Climate Solutions for the Health Care Sector”, Apr 10, 2018
• Caroline Wellbery, “Clinical climate change teaching at Georgetown University School of Medicine”, Apr 9, 2018
• Jay Lemery, “Educational Opportunities”, Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, Climate & Health Solutions Conference, Apr 9, 2018
• Perry Sheffield, “Providers, Patients, and the Public: Climate change affects us all”, Delaware Climate and Health Conference, Jun 6, 2017
• Denni Cawley, “Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment”, “Climate Changes Health: The Breath and Heart of It All” webinar, American Public Health Association (APHA), May 22, 2017
• Gary Cohen, “Health Care in the Age of Planetary Health”, “Climate Changes Health: Clean Energy Changes Climate” webinar, American Public Health Association (APHA), Mar 30, 2017
• Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, “Medical Alert! Climate Change Is Harming Our Health”, Mar 15, 2018

Videos

General

• AAMC Exploring Student Perspectives: The Current Landscape of Student- led Initiatives in Climate & Health Education (Building Better Curriculum), April 19, 2023

• ​Presentations available on various climate and health topics from The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, Climate & Health Solutions Conference, Apr 9-10, 2018
• Videos available on various climate and health topics from the Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Sept 20-21, 2015
• Videos and webinars on various climate and health topics can be found on the US Climate and Health Alliance website
• Climate Change: What is the health professional's role?, Georgetown University School of Medicine

Health Impacts

• The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, Climate & Health Solutions Conference, “Kick-Off, Keynote, and Lancet Countdown”, Apr 13, 2018
• Jonathan Patz, “Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure?”, TEDxOshkosh, Jan 10, 2018
• World Health Organization South-East Asia Region - WHO SEARO, “Climate Change and Health”, Sep 13, 2017
• Jay Lemery, “Climate Change and Health: The Broad Perspective”, Aspen Global Change Institute, Jan 3, 2017
• The Obama White House, “Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States”, Apr 4, 2016
• The Forum at The Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health and the Ground Truth Project, “Climate Change: Health and Disease Threats”, Dec 16, 2015
• Jonathan Patz, “Climate and Health – Where We Stand”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Oct 15, 2015
• Linda Rudolph, “Climate and Health – Where We Stand”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Oct 15, 2015

Heat

• NRDCflix, "Extreme Heat and Health", Aug 21, 2019
• Marsha Wills-Karp, D. Norris, J. Aucott, and M. Ramanathan, “More Heat, More Allergies, More Bugs: Change in Human Health | Brady Dennis - The Washington Post”, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Jun 5, 2017
• Mona Sarfaty, “Heat, Pollen and Air Pollution”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Oct 15, 2015
• “Climate Changes Health: The Breath and Heart of It All” webinar, American Public Health Association (APHA), May 22, 2017
• Rosalyn Baker, “Heat, Pollen and Air Pollution”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Oct 15, 2015

Infectious Diseases

• Lynn Ringenberg, “Climate Health and Infectious Diseases”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Oct 15, 2015
• Samantha Ahdoot, “Climate Change and Infectious Diseases”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Oct 15, 2015
• Carl Lowenberger, “Disease, Risk and Climate Change- Where do we stand?”, Simon Fraser University, Mar 16, 2015

Mental Health

• EcoAmerica, “Mental Health and Our Changing Climate”, Mar 29, 2017
• Lise Van Susteren, “Mental Health Issues and Climate Change”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Oct 15, 2015
• Susan Clayton, “Mental Health Issues and Climate Change”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Oct 15, 2015
• The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, Climate & Health Solutions Conference, “Is Climate Change Another Adverse Childhood Event?”, Apr 13, 2018

Ethics

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kaltura MediaSpace, "The Ethics of Climate Change", 2019

Policy

• The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, Climate & Health Solutions Conference, “Climate Change Solutions”, Apr 13, 2018
• The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, Climate & Health Solutions Conference, “Climate Change Solutions”, Apr 13, 2018
• Greg Nemet, “How Policy Impacts Climate Change and Human Health”, Kaltura Mediaspace, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dec 3, 2015
• Catherine Thomasson, “Moving Climate Health Policy”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Oct 15, 2015
• Rona Birnbaum, “Moving Climate Health Policy”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Oct 15, 2015. 

Clinical Practice

• Multiple presentations, Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research's Second Annual Clinical Climate Change Conference, "Protecting Patients and Improving Health Outcomes in the Climate Crisis", Jan 24, 2020
• Mount Sinai EMPH, "Teen Talks: Climate Change and Child Health with Dr. Perry Sheffield", Mar 8, 2018
• Cecilia Sorensen, “Bringing Climate Change to Graduate Medical Education”, Aspen Global Change Institute, Nov 15, 2017
• Gary Cohen, “Addressing Climate Change in Healthcare Settings pt 2”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Sept 20-21, 2015
• Gary Cohen, “Addressing Climate Change in Healthcare Settings pt 3”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Sept 20-21, 2015
• Robin Guenther, “Addressing Climate Change in Healthcare Settings p1”, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Climate Health Summit, Sept 20-21, 2015

General

• Advocate Health, GET CLIMATE SMART | ACTIONS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: six session series for clinicians on air quality, rising temperatures, vector-borne diseases, and extreme weather

• NHS eLearning for Healthcare, Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare (ESH) programme: 3 sessions all presented through key concepts and case studies

• Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, offers online short-courses :UK- based online repository of short courses with case studies, followed by live workshops, Resources sorted by specialty, Price: £95 - £165 + VAT 

• Rainer Sauerborn and Sophie-Hélène Goulet, Centre Virchow-Villermé, "Climate Change and Health", Iversity (Free & Self-Paced): For the general public but especially for health professionals given climate and health angle, 5 chapter course; country-by-country analysis, Free Course

• World Organisation of Family Doctors, Online Course on Planetary Health for Primary Care: Website is in Portuguese but course is accessible in English, Multiple dates available as early as November 2022; see registration

• UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Doctoring Climate Change: Air Quality, Heat-Related Illness, and Disparate Impact: Developed by Ashley McClure, MD, FACP, Objectives: cover climate change-related illnesses, examine climate change from an SDOH lens, and approaching climate change from a preventative health angle

• The Medical Consortium on Climate and Health, previously recorded Consortium Webinars: Cover a variety of specialties; many of the sessions are recorded and available for rewatch

Medical Students

• Climate Crisis and Clinical Medicine Virtual Elective for Medical Students: Virtual elective designed for M3 and M4 students who are interested in furthering their understanding of the intersection of the climate crisis and clinical medicine. This 4-week course will cover Climate Change and Emerging Clinical Challenges, Health Equity and Social Justice, Climate Solutions for the Healthcare Sector, and Communicating about Climate Change.

Microbiology

• Coursera, “Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface”, University of Montreal: Focuses on how climate change affects zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, tropical diseases 

Nutrition 

• For patients: Nutrition for Health and Sustainability, by Future Learn: A general public resource that examines how diet affects the incidence of chronic disease, and what relationship diet and sustainability have, CPD credit offered, available in Spanish, One-time purchase cost of $44 

• For providers: Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet: An Interactive Guide for Clinicians, by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Interactive module (slide deck based), Free Course

Pediatrics 

• American Board of Pediatrics, "Impact of Climate Change on Pediatric Health Care”: Requires ABP profile, Access as follows: under "Activity Points," click on the blue "My Activities" button in the MOC section; then click on the "Self-Assessment (Part 2) Search" button; enter "climate" in the search field to find the activity.

Pulmonology 

• D'Amato G, Chong-Neto HJ, Monge Ortega OP, Vitale C, Ansotegui I, Rosario N, Haahtela T, Galan C, Pawankar R, Murrieta-Aguttes M, Cecchi L, Bergmann C, Ridolo E, Ramon G, Gonzalez Diaz S, D'Amato M, Annesi-Maesano I. The effects of climate change on respiratory allergy and asthma induced by pollen and mold allergens. Allergy. 2020 Sep;75(9):2219-2228. doi: 10.1111/all.14476. Epub 2020 Aug 5. PMID: 32589303.

• Di Cicco ME, Ferrante G, Amato D, Capizzi A, De Pieri C, Ferraro VA, Furno M, Tranchino V, La Grutta S. Climate Change and Childhood Respiratory Health: A Call to Action for Paediatricians. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jul 24;17(15):5344. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17155344. PMID: 32722291; PMCID: PMC7432234.

• Heaney A, Stowell JD, Liu JC, Basu R, Marlier M, Kinney P. Impacts of Fine Particulate Matter From Wildfire Smoke on Respiratory and Cardiovascular Health in California. Geohealth. 2022 Jun 3;6(6):e2021GH000578. doi: 10.1029/2021GH000578. PMID: 35795228; PMCID: PMC9166629.

• Hii M, Beyer K, Namin S, Malecki K, Rublee C. Respiratory Function and Racial Health Disparities With Residential Proximity to Coal Power Plants in Wisconsin. WMJ. 2022 Jul;121(2):94-105. PMID: 35877032.

• Joshi M, Goraya H, Joshi A, Bartter T. Climate change and respiratory diseases: a 2020 perspective. Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2020 Mar;26(2):119-127. doi: 10.1097/MCP.0000000000000656. PMID: 31851023.

• Lin GC, Zacharek MA. Climate change and its impact on allergic rhinitis and other allergic respiratory diseases. Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2012 Jun;20(3):188-93. doi: 10.1097/MOO.0b013e3283524b14. PMID: 22569402.

• Maleki H, Goudarzi G, Baboli Z, Khodadadi R, Yazdani M, Babaei AA, Mohammadi MJ. Temporal profiles of ambient air pollutants and associated health outcomes in two polluted cities of the Middle East. J Environ Health Sci Eng. 2022 Jan 13;20(1):347-361. doi: 10.1007/s40201-021-00781-z. PMID: 35669839; PMCID: PMC9163235.

• Tong M, Wondmagegn B, Xiang J, Hansen A, Dear K, Pisaniello D, Varghese B, Xiao J, Jian L, Scalley B, Nitschke M, Nairn J, Bambrick H, Karnon J, Bi P. Hospitalization Costs of Respiratory Diseases Attributable to Temperature in Australia and Projections for Future Costs in the 2030s and 2050s under Climate Change. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 6;19(15):9706. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19159706. PMID: 35955062; PMCID: PMC9368165.

Heat

• Alahmad B, Khraishah H, Shakarchi AF, Albaghdadi M, Rajagopalan S, Koutrakis P, Jaffer FA. Cardiovascular Mortality and Exposure to Heat in an Inherently Hot Region: Implications for Climate Change. Circulation. 2020 Apr 14;141(15):1271-1273. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.044860. Epub 2020 Mar 30. PMID: 32223316; PMCID: PMC9060422.

• Chesini F, Herrera N, Skansi MLM, Morinigo CG, Fontán S, Savoy F, Titto E. Mortality risk during heat waves in the summer 2013-2014 in 18 provinces of Argentina: Ecological study. Cien Saude Colet. 2022 May;27(5):2071-2086. doi: 10.1590/1413-81232022275.07502021. Epub 2021 Aug 1. PMID: 35544832.

• Farugia TL, Cuni-Lopez C, White AR. Potential Impacts of Extreme Heat and Bushfires on Dementia. J Alzheimers Dis. 2021;79(3):969-978. doi: 10.3233/JAD-201388. PMID: 33459654.

• Foster J, Smallcombe JW, Hodder S, Jay O, Flouris AD, Nybo L, Havenith G. An advanced empirical model for quantifying the impact of heat and climate change on human physical work capacity. Int J Biometeorol. 2021 Jul;65(7):1215-1229. doi: 10.1007/s00484-021-02105-0. Epub 2021 Mar 5. PMID: 33674931; PMCID: PMC8213606.

• Kuehn L, McCormick S. Heat Exposure and Maternal Health in the Face of Climate Change. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Jul 29;14(8):853. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14080853. PMID: 28758917; PMCID: PMC5580557.

• White-Newsome JL, Sánchez BN, Jolliet O, Zhang Z, Parker EA, Dvonch JT, O'Neill MS. Climate change and health: indoor heat exposure in vulnerable populations. Environ Res. 2012 Jan;112:20-7. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.10.008. Epub 2011 Nov 8. PMID: 22071034; PMCID: PMC4352572.

Infectious Diseases

• Ellwanger JH, Kulmann-Leal B, Kaminski VL, Valverde-Villegas JM, Veiga ABGD, Spilki FR, Fearnside PM, Caesar L, Giatti LL, Wallau GL, Almeida SEM, Borba MR, Hora VPD, Chies JAB. Beyond diversity loss and climate change: Impacts of Amazon deforestation on infectious diseases and public health. An Acad Bras Cienc. 2020 Apr 17;92(1):e20191375. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202020191375. PMID: 32321030.

• Jacobs JW. The impact of climate change and emerging infectious diseases on the blood supply. Transfus Apher Sci. 2021 Dec;60(6):103272. doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2021.103272. Epub 2021 Sep 6. PMID: 34509385; PMCID: PMC8420088.

• Ma Y, Destouni G, Kalantari Z, Omazic A, Evengård B, Berggren C, Thierfelder T. Linking climate and infectious disease trends in the Northern/Arctic Region. Sci Rep. 2021 Oct 19;11(1):20678. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-00167-z. PMID: 34667214; PMCID: PMC8526576.

• Thomas MB. Epidemics on the move: Climate change and infectious disease. PLoS Biol. 2020 Nov 24;18(11):e3001013. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001013. PMID: 33232329; PMCID: PMC7685491.

• Williams PC, Bartlett AW, Howard-Jones A, McMullan B, Khatami A, Britton PN, Marais BJ. Impact of climate change and biodiversity collapse on the global emergence and spread of infectious diseases. J Paediatr Child Health. 2021 Nov;57(11):1811-1818. doi: 10.1111/jpc.15681. PMID: 34792238.

• Wu X, Lu Y, Zhou S, Chen L, Xu B. Impact of climate change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation. Environ Int. 2016 Jan;86:14-23. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2015.09.007. Epub 2015 Oct 18. PMID: 26479830.

Ophthalmology

• Lisa Kelly. Ocular Manifestations of Climate Change [Internet]. American Academy of Ophthalmology: EyeWiki. 2022. Available from: https://eyewiki.org/Ocular_Manifestations_of_Climate_Change.

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

• Jowell A, Lachenauer A, Lu J, Maines B, Patel L, Nadeau K, Erny B. A model for comprehensive climate and medical education. The Lancet January 2023, Vol 7, Issue 1, E2-E3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00215-7

The Medical Journal of Australia. Preparing Australasian medical students for environmentally sustainable health care. 2022 Mar.