Starting Next Week: South and Southeast Asia Climate and Health Responder Course

May 7-July 16, 2025 | 5:30-7:00 PM India Standard Time

This comprehensive 11-week course, led by local experts, will provide in-depth knowledge on climate science and its health impacts. Participants will enhance their ability to identify, communicate, and respond to climate-related health challenges, while also improving their capacity to implement adaptation and mitigation strategies that foster resilient health systems. Take the next step in strengthening your expertise—register today!

Office Hours For Climate and Health Curricula

May 26, 2025 | 2:00-3:00 PM EST

The GCCHE is offering virtual consultation with faculty peers who have personal experience implementing climate and planetary health content into their institution’s curricula. Join us to discuss your practical, administrative, and conceptual challenges to integrating curriculum at your institution, receive personalized support, and grow your collegial network. Health educators across all faculties and disciplines are welcome!

This initiative is supported by the GCCHE Medical Working Group and the Climate Resources for Health Education (CRHE) team.

How To Conduct a Climate and Health Survey

May 21, 2025 | 5:00-6:30PM EST (NYC)

While many are familiar with the essential role survey data plays in climate and health research, programming, and practice, designing an effective survey can be intimidating. In order to advance climate and health research in the Caribbean, it is critical that health professionals understand how to build accessible and engaging surveys that can produce reliable, representative, and ethical data.

In this session, participants will learn essential steps and best practices for designing and implementing a climate and health survey. Panelist presentations will illustrate how surveys fit into a larger research process, important communications and question design strategies, and the role of surveys in program monitoring and evaluation. Participants will leave the webinar with new tips for selecting appropriate sampling methods and evaluating survey data reliability. Join us!

Apply For the Sustainable Healthcare Leadership Institute

Applications close July 1, 2025, early applications highly encouraged

The Sustainable Healthcare Leadership Institute is a year-long intensive professional program designed to equip mid-career healthcare professionals with the technical knowledge, leadership skills, and peer network to lead sustainability efforts within their healthcare institutions. Led by Columbia Mailman School of Public Health’s Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) and Clinically Sustainable Consulting, this program addresses the urgent need to reduce the healthcare sector’s environmental footprint–currently responsible for 8.5% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions–while simultaneously advancing quality improvement, cost savings, social accountability, and organizational mission.

Applicants must be currently working within a US health system.