CCPHMINU - Climate Change and Public Health

Undergraduate Minor

Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health

Undergraduate

Climate change is a global emergency that threatens the health, social, and economic development of all peoples of the world. The health and environmental impacts of climate change disproportionately affect poor and disadvantaged populations and contribute to the worsening of health and socioeconomic inequities. Climate change experts at the University of Arizona will provide world-class training in climate change that will equip undergraduate students with the knowledge and skills to plan strategies to address the health and environmental impacts of climate change.

-Identify the underlying drivers of climate change, how they will change weather patterns, and the role of public health in addressing the health impacts of climate change.
-Describe the methods and tools utilized to quantify the health impacts of climate change and propose public health measures to reduce the impact of climate change from health equity.
- Develop tools to communicate climate change effects on health.