Photo by Brett Wharton on Unsplash Connecting climate change and health in med school For many Harvard Medical School students, the threat climate change is posing to human health is no longer theoretical. HMS now plans to embed climate change and its health impacts in the MD curriculum.
Newsletter Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash Medical schools add climate change into curriculum At the urging of some medical students, some medical schools have started to teach future doctors about the health impacts of a warming planet.
Impacts grist.org The climate crisis is making us sick. Doctors need better training to treat it. Few medical schools include climate change in their curricula, making physicians ill-equipped to prevent resulting illness and death.
Opinion grist.org Want to prevent the next pandemic? This doctor is prescribing climate action “If the frontlines of this pandemic have taught us anything, it’s that we are up for the challenge.”
