This course is available to graduate students from all disciplines and also to professionals interested in these themes. Students from all universities are welcome to register. It is possible to register for the full course at participating universities, with credits transferred, or for the webinars only (not for credit, a certificate is provided). Learn more about our teaching style in our 2023 paper published in the Lancet Planetary Health.

Objective. The overall objective of this course is to provide participants with a working knowledge of ecosystem approaches to health, such that they can integrate the principles into their own work, as necessary.

Theme: Each year these activities revolve around a theme, which, this year, is “Climate Health Equity and Reciprocity.”

Content. A stand-alone webinair series: This webinar series covers the main orientations of the Ecosystem approaches to health (complexity/systems thinking, transdisciplinarity, (ecosystem) sustainability, social and gender equity, participation, and knowledge to action)