MSc Climate Change & Planetary Health

MSc Climate Change & Planetary Health

Climate change affects diverse populations around the world. This programme will provide the skills necessary for students to be agents of change in the emerging interdisciplinary field of planetary health. It is primarily targeted at academics and professionals who want to gain knowledge of the complex systems that link the environment and human health.

Objectives

The programme will enable you to:

• apply the concepts of planetary health, global environmental change and sustainable development to inform and advocate for a planetary health perspective in global public health
• assess key pathways and indicators by which changes to global environmental systems affect human health, including (but not limited to) heat stress, food systems, air pollution, infectious disease and biodiversity loss.
• critically appraise tools and methods available from disciplines including epidemiology, biostatistics, social and behavioural sciences, and data science, and assess their strengths and limitations for different planetary health research problems
• design and manage research projects in the fields of climate change and planetary health by using and combining tools from across disciplines
• evaluate the implications of planetary health research for health policy and practice in different country and population contexts
• assemble and communicate results of complex systems analyses in language appropriate for specialist and non-specialist audiences.