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 Education Program
A variety of educational resources are available for students and teachers throgh the Center's Education Program.
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Textbooks and Reports
Medical School Education
Human Health and Global Environmental Change
From 1997 through 2007, the Center taught the semester-long course at HMS Human Health and Global Environmental Change, 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. All course material including lecture videos, reading references, and presentations are freely available on this website.
High School Education
 Human Health and Global Environmental Change
This course highlights the human health connection to environmental change issues such as global warming, biodiversity, and pollution. Working with high school teachers, the Center for Health and the Global Environment has adapted its course taught at Harvard Medical School to provide the opportunity to incorporate emerging environmental concepts within the context of cutting edge research and authentic scientific inquiry.
The course may be used to teach a full semester long class, or teachers may use the resources individually. These include lectures available online through realplayer, powerpoint presentations, guiding questions, vocabulary words, activities, related readings and resources.
Primary Education
 Once Upon a Tide
The Center's film Once upon a Tide reconnects its audience to the importance of the marine environment for all life on Earth, including human life. Unlike conventional natural history documentaries, the film is a fictional narrative that blends the moral and visual elements of a fairy tale to inspire us to recognize the importance of ocean conservation.
This modern day fable is an innovative educational approach that will be shown in aquariums, museums, theaters and schools nationally and internationally. The film's website www.healthyocean.org includes educational ‘take-away’ guides for viewers and curricula for teachers addressing how the ocean heals, sustains and nourishes humans.
Textbooks and Reports
 Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
A rich resource that can be used as textbook, Sustaining Life isthe first to examine the full range of potential threats that a loss of biodiversity poses to human health. Written in language a general reader can easily understand, the book's ten chapters cover everything from what biodiversity is and how human activity threatens it to how we as individuals can help conserve the world's richly varied biota.
Seven groups of organisms, some of the most endangered on Earth—sharks, bears, primates, amphibians, cone snails, gymnosperms, and horseshoe crabs—provide detailed case studies to illustrate the contributions they have already made to human medicine, and those they are expected to make if we do not drive them to extinction.
 Healthy Solutions for the Low Carbon Economy
Healthy Solutions details energy choices and catalogs their health, ecological and economic benefits and/or risks, to distinguish between those technologies ready for wide-scale adoption and technologies warranting further study.
The report takes a critical look at the potential unintended consequences of using tar sands, shale oil, coal with carbon dioxide capture and storage, biofuels and nuclear energy, while presenting a positive vision for smart grids with renewable sources, green buildings, smart urban growth, and hybrids of power generation for mobile and stationary systems. |
