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Medical Education Course:
Human Health and Global Environmental Change
The Center offers an annual semester-long course designed to meet the demand for a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between human health and the global environment for future physicians, policy-makers and public health experts. The course is held at Harvard Medical School in the Spring Semester and is open to students throughout the Boston area, as well as the general public. All course material including lecture videos, reading references, and presentations are available, free of charge, on this website.
Harvard Medical School Course HO703.0
Harvard School of Public Health EH278ab
Spring 2007 Course
Wednesdays, January 31 - May 2, 2007, 1:30 - 5:30PM
Canon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
2007 Course Agenda
Spring 2006 Course
- February 2: Introduction
Introduction and Course Overview
Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School
Why We Are Giving This Course
Eric Chivian, MD, Harvard Medical School
Methods in Environmental Health
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health
How to Prepare for This Course
Daniel A. Goodenough, PhD, Harvard Medical School
- February 9: The Geopolitical Context
Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: A Look Back at Katrina
Jennifer Leaning, MD, SMH, Harvard School of Public Health
Ecological Systems and Disease
Richard Levins, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health
- February 16: Biological Diversity
Biodiversity and Conservation
Edward O. Wilson, PhD, Harvard University
Biodiversity and Human Health
Eric Chivian, MD, Harvard Medical School
- February 23: Climate Change
Climate Change: The Science
James J. McCarthy, PhD, Harvard University
Screening: Healthy Oceans, Healthy Humans
Climate Change: The Human Health Impacts
Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School
- March 2: Ecology, Climate and Disease
Biodiversity and Humans Health: Focus on Lyme Disease
Richard S. Ostfeld, PhD, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Update on Avian Flu
Mary Wilson, MD, Harvard Medical School
- March 9: Sustainable Cities and the Media
The Arctic, Sustainability, and the Media
Andrew Revkin, The New York Times
Sustainable Cities
Howard Frumkin, MD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- March 16: Energy, Environment and the Economy
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Energy Choices
William Moomaw, PhD, Tufts University
Climate Change and the Financial Sector
Christopher T. Walker, Swiss Re
- March 23: Break
- March 30: Chemicals and Communities
Heavy Metals
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD, harvard School of Public Health
Children's Chemical Burden
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
*Mid-term handed out
- April 6: Food
Sustainable Food for the Planet
Frances Moore Lappé, Small Planet Institute
Aquaculture, Wild Stocks and Ocean Health
Rosamond Naylor, PhD, Stanford University
*Mid-term due in class
- April 13: Green Energy
Green Buildings
Bob Fox, AIA, Cook+Fox Architects
Alternative Energy Technologies
Paul Wormser, MBA, University of Massachusetts Lowell
(Photo courtesy of Jock Pottle/Esto for Cook + Fox Architects LLP)
- April 20: Wetlands and Forests
Wetland Buffers and Non-Linear Impacts from Climate Change
Virginia Burkett PhD., US Geological Survey
Healthy Forests and Climate Change
William Schlesinger, PhD, Duke University
- April 27: Land and Sea
The Health of Coral Reefs
Ray Hayes, PhD, Howard University
Growing Food Sustainably
Fred Kirchenmann, PhD, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University
- May 4: Transitioning to a Healthy Future
Global Scenarios for a Sustainable Future
Paul D. Raskin, PhD, The Tellus Institute
Financial Instruments
Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School
- May 11: Final Presentations
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