Degraded Air Quality
These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by Anthony Gerber, MD, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, National Jewish Hospital. What you’ll learn Discover the climate change effects of ozone, PM2.5, and other ambient respiratory irritants on respiratory diseases such as asthma, COPD, chronic lung disease, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular, and allergic diseases. Analyze data […]
Climate Change and Heat Impacts
Mini Lesson: Extreme Heat In this mini lesson, you’ll find: Case studies. Definitions. Review questions. Go to the Mini Lesson: Extreme Heat. Local Government Response to the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome https://youtu.be/VUu53Bt7PwE (approximately 25 minutes—you can stop watching at 58 min.) Direct and indirect health impacts of extreme heat Source: Scale and nature of […]
Climate Change and Mental Health
Mental Health in a Changing Climate Mini Lesson: Mental Health and the Environment In this mini lesson, you’ll find: Case studies. Definitions. Review questions. Go to the Mini Lesson: Mental Health and the Environment. These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Katie Hayes, , PhD, Senior Policy Analyst, Health Canada, Climate Change […]
Extreme Weather Hazards
These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by Jesse Bell, PhD: Claire M. Hubbard, Professor of Water, Climate, and Health, Director of the Water, Climate, and Health Program, University of Nebraska Medical Center. Links between Climate and Health Hippocrates Dr. James Tilton Hippocrates Hippocrates wrote about epidemics in 400 B.C.E. and noted the change […]
Vector-Borne Disease
Climate and Human Health Responders: Vector-borne Disease These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by Angelle Desiree LaBeaud, MD, MS, Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University Impact of Climate Change on Environmental Processes Climate change is shifting all natural systems. The range, life cycle, growing pattern, and disease dynamics of many living organisms are affected […]
Planetary Health Resources
Books Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, by Eric Klinenberg Global Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice, 2nd edition, by Jay Lemery, Kim Knowlton, Cecilia Sorensen TedTalks, Videos, and Webinars Collaborative for Health & Environment How to discuss health impacts of climate change with patients in a clinical setting […]
Water- and Food-Related Illness
Climate Change: Impacts on the Hydrologic Cycle and Waterborne Disease These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by George Luber, PhD, of Emory University. Source: National Climatic Data Center, NOAA. Global Ocean Heat Content, 1955–2010. Source: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory, updated from Levitus, S., et al., “World ocean heat content and thermostericsea level change […]
Planetary Health

Planetary Health recognizes that “human health and the health of the planet are inextricably linked.”1 It is a concept that focuses our understanding on the interdependence of human health, animal health, and the health of the environment.2 Awareness of how the escalation of human pressure on the global environment led to impairment in ecosystems, creating […]