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Climate change is an urgent and multifaceted challenge facing all of society.

Harvard faculty teach an expanding array of courses examining the many dimensions of this shared challenge. Explore courses in climate and sustainability ranging from economics and English to public health and climate science. 

 

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ID 280

Environmental Justice, Climate Action, and Health

Through a series of lectures and conversations with practitioners, the course will address how health care professionals and public health researchers can engage with policy makers to better communicate urgency and provide solutions that advance health equity.  It will also offer some strategies and tools for effective community organizing and clear science communication on environmental justice and climate action.
Fall 2024 Graduate Not Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Oct 28, 2024
HPM 539

Management Science for a New Era

The past decade has brought dynamism, complexity, and growth in health organizations, from integrated care delivery systems to multi-service nonprofits. As a result, healthcare work settings are increasingly fast paced, interdependent and uncertain – and COVID-19 has greatly intensified these trends. These conditions make management and organizational behavior ever more critical to performance. How can leaders help their organizations and teams to thrive in such dynamic settings? How can they simultaneously organize for tight execution and innovation, build resilience in the face of crisis, achieve influence amid limited authority, and treat people respectfully without burning out? These are questions of organizational behavior and theory.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Oct 28, 2024
GHP 262

Emerging Issues in Humanitarian Response and Human Rights

The course will provide an introduction to the foundational concepts and emerging issues essential for understanding and engaging in humanitarian and human rights research and action. The course will prepare students to understand and engage in humanitarian response and human rights protection, while examining emerging critical challenges that have multi-dimensional global impacts
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Oct 28, 2024
IID 201

Eradicating Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases

This course is a survey to introduce core concepts and tools of disease eradication. We will discuss the current tools (or lack of tools), the evidence for their effective use, and their successes and failures, and we will discuss the policies and programs required to effectively use these tools for infectious disease control and eradication.
Fall 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Fri, Oct 17, 2025
EH 249

Built Environment, Nature, and Health

Through this course, participants will learn how to study the influence of built and natural environments on an array of health outcomes, receive a basic introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (no prior knowledge required), will learn to assess the evidence behind different associations observed in the literature, and will explore the policy and decision-making processes that facilitate built and natural environment changes.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Oct 28, 2024
HPM 557

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health Care

This course is designed to expose students to the theory and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship in health care settings, both domestically and abroad.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Oct 28, 2024
EH 213

Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice-Focusing on Policy and Solutions

In this class, we will focus on the ways in which climate change impacts human health and discuss approaches to quantify and mitigate these impacts at the local, state, national, and global levels. You will have the opportunity to monitor, measure, and analyze climate change associated data relevant to human health such as air pollution and temperature with devices we provide. You will also meet policy makers, community leaders, and community members who are addressing climate change impacts on human health. The overarching goal of the course is to critically discuss the health outcomes of energy production and climate change impacts on food, water, air, soil, food systems, and e-waste through the lens of social justice and health equity.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EH 206

Foundations of Environmental Health

:This course is designed to lay a foundation in environmental health, integrating key disciplines such as risk assessment, exposure assessment, epidemiology, toxicology, data analytics, physical science, and science policy. We aim to enhance students' critical thinking and quantitative abilities through interactive workshops, case studies, assignments, and insightful readings. The curriculum is structured around a thread of quantitative and qualitative reasoning, addressing seven crucial topics in environmental health: air pollution, water pollution, global warming, environmental justice, occupational health, radiation, and persistent pollutants.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
BETH 751

Health and Human Rights

This course will examine health and health care in the context of human rights.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EH 213

Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice-Focusing on Solutions

Human health and the health of our planet are inextricably linked and they can be mutually beneficial. However, our planet’s health and our health are at risk
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 353M, GHP 543

Frontline Negotiation Lab: Strategic Planning for Complex Engagements

.This one-week intensive on-campus course is designed for those planning to work in high-intensity environments such as pandemics, climate crises, natural disasters, armed conflicts and other critical situations. This is a demanding course for highly motivated and committed students.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 13, 2025
PWY 134

Integrated Human Pathophysiology III

Integrated Human Pathophysiology 3 (IHP3) focuses on key concepts in normal physiology and pathophysiology of the kidney, endocrine and reproductive endocrine systems.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025