The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health is now accepting applications for the fourteenth offering of its 21-week, fully online, Climate Change and Health Certificate Program for working professionals, including those working in public health, medicine and allied fields, mental health, health education, policy, environmental protection, energy, sustainability, government, advocacy, insurance, and other related fields. Participants in this program are trained to:
Explain the health impacts of climate change and the near-term benefits of mitigating greenhouse gases;
Discuss the specific climate change and health issues faced by the Caribbean, South Asia, or Sub-Saharan Africa;
Devise adaptation strategies to increase community or organizational resilience to the health consequences of climate change and improve health equity; and
Communicate effectively about climate change and health to enhance adaptive capacity, motivate positive changes in climate-related behaviors, and promote civic engagement to support systemic change.