climate crisis
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What you can do if climate change is harming your community’s health: a practical guide
Climate change is harming the health of the communities you serve. The Certificate peer learning programme for leadership in climate change and health helps you act on it, where you are, with what you have. It is free, it is built from the experience of more than 80,000 health and humanitarian workers, and you can…
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Lessons in resilience: what health workers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America know and do in response to worsening climate change impacts on their communities
Between July 2023 and June 2026, a nascent global community of health and humanitarian workers connected to learn from and support each other. Working with The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), they built something that does not yet have a settled name in global health: a way to treat the observations of community-based health workers as…
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The imperative for climate action to protect health and the role of education
“The Imperative for Climate Action to Protect Health” is an article that examines the current and projected health impacts of climate change, as well as the potential health benefits of actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The authors state that “climate change is causing injuries, illnesses, and deaths, with the risks projected to increase substantially…
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Climate change is a threat to the health of the communities we serve: health workers speak out at COP28
The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Charlotte Mbuh spoke today at the COP28 Health Pavilion in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Watch the speech at COP28… Good afternoon. I am Charlotte Mbuh. I have worked for the health of children and families in Cameroon for over 15 years. I am one of more than 5,500 health workers…
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