TOPICS TO BE COVERED

• Introduction to climate and health
• Impact and risk assessment methods and tools
• Extreme Weather and Health
• Climate sensitive diseases
• Public health responses to climate risks

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO CLIMATE AND HEALTH

• Introduction and overview of climate change
• Physico-chemical basis of anthropogenic climate change and its dynamics
• Weather, climate, climate variability and climate change
  • Overview of the health impacts of climate change

MODULE 2: IMPACT AND RISK ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TOOLS

• Introduction
• Adaptation to climate change
• Adaptation as climate risk management
• Analyzing the health impacts of weather, climate and climate change
• Modeling the health impacts of climate change
• Estimating the burden of disease from climate change
• Methods and tools for climate risk assessment
• Developing an adaptation plans

MODULE 3: EXTREME WEATHER AND HEALTH

• Temperature related impacts
• Precipitation extremes: heavy rainfall, flooding and drought
• Natural disaster and their trends
• Guidance plans for preparedness and response to extreme weather events
• Case study

1. Northern Kenya
2. Fiji (South pacific)
3. United States

MODULE 4: CLIMATE SENSITIVE DISEASES

• Explain the concept of climate-sensitive diseases
• Describe health outcomes linked to climate effects
• Identify mechanisms linking environmental conditions and health

• Food security and malnutrition
• Global change, air quality and human health
• What makes individuals and populations vulnerable to the effects of climate change?

MODULE 5: PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSES TO CLIMATE RISKS

• Policy responses to address the risks of climate change
• Public health adaptation to the health risks of climate change
• Early warning systems
• Role of the health sector in international climate change negotiations