Climate CHANGE is a healthcare problem
It’s time to take action for the well-being of our communities and our planet.
Climate Change may not be in your medical journal,
BUT IT SHOULD BE.
We are in a climate crisis, and it’s encroaching on our health in numerous ways.
As a team of medical students from the University of British Columbia, we believe the first step to climate action is knowledge sharing. We have compiled evidence-based knowledge into learning modules to document the intersection of climate change and health, answer critical questions, and explore the ways healthcare providers, can address some of our world’s most pressing issues.
These learning modules contain up-to-date knowledge, real-life examples, and practical approaches to improve both community and climate health. The content of the learning modules will be continually updated as existing research evolves.
“When the next generation asks us,
'What did you do about climate change?,’
we want to have a good answer.”
Climate change affects us all.
We hope this website can act as a starting place to begin discussing the close relationship between health and climate change and the ways that healthcare professionals may be involved in both adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Most of the content on this website focuses on British Columbia and Canada. As medical students in British Columbia, we wanted to address the gaps we are experiencing, and the clinically relevant aspects of climate change and disease to this region.
We want to provide practical examples and approaches for healthcare professionals, and medical students more specifically, to understand how advocating for climate action may look in practice. However, most of our ideas translate to other areas of the globe and are hopefully useful for extrapolating to other healthcare systems.