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Climate Change, Sustainability, and Global Public Health (Coursera)

The third course of the Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health specialization will introduce you to two major environmental health challenges facing the world today. The first is climate change –the preeminent threat to public health today, and a threat that will impact every human and ecosystem [...]

Environmental Health: the Foundation of Global Public Health (Coursera)

Apr 1st 2024
Environmental Health: the Foundation of Global Public Health (Coursera)
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The first course of the Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health specialization will provide you with a foundation in environmental health sciences (EHS). We will explore four main topics. The first is an introduction to EHS and the exposure-disease model – a very useful framework for understanding [...]

Healthy and Sustainable Foods (Coursera)

Mar 25th 2024
Healthy and Sustainable Foods (Coursera)
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This course focuses on healthy and sustainable foods. After reviewing the crucial role of food for both health and the environment, we first look at the carbon footprint and environmental impacts of multiple ingredients and more complex foods. We also detail a health-based approach to quantify the impact of [...]

Sustainable Tourism – promoting environmental public health (Coursera)

The MOOC introduces learners to key environmental health and natural resources management challenges associated with the rapid growth in international tourist arrivals into low-income countries. Since infrastructural and regulatory capacities in such countries are often limited they are more exposed to the negative implications of such development. The MOOC [...]

An Introduction to Global Health (Coursera)

This course will provide you with an overview of the most important health challenges facing the world today. You will gain insight into how challenges have changed over time, we will discuss the likely determinants of such changes and examine future projections. Successful international strategies and programs promoting human [...]

One Health: A Ten-Thousand-Year-Old View into the Future (edX)

Explore the connectedness of people, animals, and the environment through this unique approach to One Health that connects traditional ways of knowing with the natural and social sciences. Combine Western and Indigenous knowledge to form a holistic understanding of the future of life in the Circumpolar [...]

Health and healthcare in transition: dilemmas of governance (Coursera)

Our societies are changing. On one hand, unprecedented socio-demographic changes are underway: albeit unevenly across various settings, life expectancy continues to rise globally, facilitating the rise of numbers of people living with one or more chronic diseases. On the other hand, societies are undergoing major political transformations as well. [...]

Tackling Lead Poisoning in Public Health (FutureLearn)

Jul 19th 2021
Tackling Lead Poisoning in Public Health (FutureLearn)
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Explore lead incidents as a public health issue and learn how lead incidents are managed in England and internationally. Develop your understanding of lead poisoning and public health policy This course offers learners the chance to learn why tackling lead poisoning is important and explore how lead poisoning impacts health [...]

Environnement et santé : un homme sain dans un environnement sain (FUN)

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Environnement et santé : un homme sain dans un environnement sain (FUN)
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Ce MOOC en toxicologie, environnement et santé aborde les principaux mécanismes d'exposition aux polluants environnementaux ainsi que les enjeux de la réglementation actuelle. La question des effets des environnements sur la santé est une préoccupation majeure. Les crises sanitaires récurrentes mettent en évidence les relations étroites entre l’homme et [...]

The Biology of Water and Health - Sustainable Interventions (edX)

Tufts University presents how to promote safe water conservation and implement sustainable solutions in order to improve public health. This water sustainability course from Tufts University focuses on the engineering and public health components needed to achieve the conservation of safe water locally and globally. Together, we will explore [...]