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Want to brainstorm approaches to integrate a planetary health lens into your teaching? Collaborative Centre Members are invited to meet with our Training & Education Lead, Nicole Simms, to explore relevant content, approaches, and connections.
Use the link below to book a consultation during Nicole’s office hours (Fridays from 2-4 pm ET). For alternative times, contact Nicole directly.
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Our evolving Planetary Health Educator Support Hub supports educators in exploring pathways to integrate planetary health concepts and competencies into their teaching. Faculty can learn about upcoming training opportunities, explore practical tools, access adaptable teaching materials, and book consultations to discuss strategies tailored to their courses and programs. By building faculty capacity to teach planetary health, we cultivate an academic community equipped to advance sustainable, equitable health systems through education, practice, and research.
Interested in getting involved? We welcome collaboration.
Introduction to Sustainable Health Systems is a 90-minute online course that will introduce you to the relationship between climate change, health, and health systems; the concept of sustainable health systems; and climate action and sustainability work across Canadian healthcare systems. Available in both English and French.
UofT Planetary Health Report Card Results
The Planetary Health Report Card (PHRC) is a metric-based tool for evaluating and improving planetary health content in health professional schools. It is completed by student-led, faculty-mentored teams, with results published in an annual Earth Day report. Participating in the development of and reviewing these reports can help faculty and students identify gaps and opportunities.
The resources listed below offer a mix of educational frameworks, competencies, learning objective, slides, case studies, exercises, and example syllabi. While many of them are tailored to medical schools, they have cross-disciplinary applicability. This list of relevant resources is evolving; please let us know if you have found any resources particularly helpful in teaching planetary health.
How to Teach Planetary Health is a curated collection of resources designed to empower educators in inspiring the next generation of leaders and advocates.
Source: Planetary Health Alliance
The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) Resource Bank links to educational content, resources, and information on a wide variety of climate and health topics to enhance the development of locally tailored climate-health educational opportunities. Resources include climate and health key competencies, syllabi, program plans, slides, online courses and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and videos.
Source: Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) / Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
The Health Education (CRHE) Resource Bank is expert-reviewed repository of learning objectives, slides, and cases for climate change and health curricula.
Source: Climate Resources for Health Education (CRHE), within the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE)
Education for Sustainable Healthcare – Stories Strategies and Solutions is a practical, collaborative, open access e-book designed to help support educators and medical schools in embedding education for sustainable healthcare (ESH) into their medical curricula.
Source: Education for Sustainable Healthcare Alliance of the UK Medical Schools Council (MSC – ESHA)
The Planetary Health Educational Competencies is an evidence-based framework of planetary health educational competencies for universal integration into medical curricula across Canada, which includes 11 competencies distributed into three foundational domains: 1) Advancing Planetary Health Justice, 2) Managing and Preventing Health Impacts, and 3) Leading and Collaborating on Mitigation and Adaptation.
Source: Canadian Federation of Medical Students Health and Environment Adaptive Response Task Force (CFMS HEART)
The Climate Wise Slides are evidence-based educational material in a systems-based organization, allowing individual students to engage with planetary health teaching in topics of their interest, and for medical schools to use the material for longitudinal curriculum implementation.
Source: Climate Wise
The Climate & Health Curriculum Reform in Medical Schools guide serves as a compilation of resources to help facilitate the integration of climate-health curriculum in medical schools.
Source: Medical Students for a Sustainable Future
The Curriculum Recommendations and Strategies for Incorporating Climate Change into Nursing Curriculum are resources for nursing students, nurses, and nursing educators/faculty to make it easier to incorporate environmental health content in curriculum and address this gap in nursing education.
Source: Alliance of Nurses for Healthier Environments
The Medicine for a Changing Planet Clinical Case Studies are based on real scenarios help health professionals identify and develop strategies for detecting and managing new health threats caused by environmental challenges. Cases can be downloaded as slide sets for instruction.
Source: Medicine for a Changing Planet – Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and the University of Washington