Sustainability and Global Health

<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>