Student Programs and Courses
Summer Institute on Sustainable Health Systems with optional Reading Course
The Summer Institute on Sustainable Health Systems was created to provide trainees with the opportunity to increase awareness of sustainable health systems and current action in Canada.
Through guided learning activities, meetings with local sustainability leaders and nation-wide panel discussions, the Summer Institute aims to develop trainee knowledge, leadership skills and capabilities, and build professional, interdisciplinary networks of trainees and professionals with shared interests.
Climate Change & Sustainable Health Systems Reading Course
This course can be taken for credit in combination with the Summer Institute.
This course explores climate change and environmental sustainability from a health policy and health systems perspective.
Interprofessional Education on Climate & Sustainability Program
This program will foster interprofessional collaborative leadership capacity in climate change and sustainable care, including Student-Led Environments, which offer workplace-based leadership learning opportunities that build their ability to lead transformational change while addressing identified gaps in the workplace.
Designed for pre-licensure/certification health professional learners. This program is in collaboration with the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE) to develop their “Health Impacts of Climate Change: An Interprofessional Response”.
Special Topics in Social Justice and Diversity: Eco-Social Work Practice and Climate Justice Course
This interactive and engaging five-day intensive interdisciplinary course explores four key issues related to climate change, environmental justice, and ecosocial work practice: 1) Ecological Crises and Their Impacts, 2) Inequality and Social Injustice, 3) Climate and Environmental Justice, and 4) Ecosocial Work Practice
By the end of the course, students will have a deeper understanding of the links between climate and environmental issues and social work practice, along with real-world strategies to address these challenges through an intersectional and social justice-centered lens.
Planetary Health Course
This course explores Planetary Health by analyzing and addressing the impacts of destabilized natural systems on human health and all life on Earth.
Designed for master’s or doctoral students, the aim of the course is to understand Planetary Health and its solutions-oriented, transdisciplinary field and social movement.