Sustainability and Global Health

Education facts

Code: MESS52

<p>The course provides global and local perspectives on, and examples of, some of the most urgent health problems we face today and their impact on people's health, wellbeing, and livelihoods. </p><p>By highlighting four key emerging and persistent global health challenges:</p><ol><li>The unavoidable health impacts of climate change (heat-stress, extreme cold, flooding, rising incidence of vector-borne diseases).</li><li>The prevailing sanitation crises (causing preventable deaths and disease outbreaks, contributing to the poverty trap, affecting economic output, and polluting the environment).</li><li>The global dietary paradox (obesity vs. malnutrition - rising global demand for animal products, fats and sugar and its effect on people and the environment, food insecurity and its impact on health, development and environment).</li><li>The health externalities of global consumerism and manufacturing (the human health effects and environmental pollution caused by the electronics we use, produce and waste).</li></ol><p>The course examines the connections among three critical areas of sustainability: development, the environment, and global health, to provide a deeper understanding of the importance of good health for social, economic, and environmental sustainability.</p>

Entry requirements

At least 40 ECTS credits from the programme SAESS Masterprogram i Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (also called LUMES).

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Sustainability and Global Health

  Lund University

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %