Course overview
Climate Change Solutions
In this course, discover the transformative role that health care providers can play in both protecting the health of the vulnerable population and for getting public support to help stabilize the climate in the coming decades.
Faculty
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, PhD
Conference Series
AIHM 2019 Annual Conference
Required Lessons
1
Time to Complete
1 hour
Non-CME Eligible*
0 Credits
What you will learn
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Course Summary
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By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Recognize the problem of climate change and the threat to public health as clinicians.
- Describe the effects climate change has on public health and health outcomes.
- Review and describe current research on climate change.
Course includes:
Included in this course
Course Faculty
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, PhD
About Veerabhadran
Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan is a Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. In the 1970s, he discovered the greenhouse effect of CFCs and numerous other manmade trace gases, and forecasted in 1980, along with R. Madden, that the global warming would be detectable by the year 2000.
He, along with Paul Crutzen, led an international team that first discovered the widespread Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs). Recently, he chaired a National Academy report that calls for a major restructuring of the Climate Change Science Program and it was received favorably by the Obama administration. His numerous awards include the 2009 Tyler prize, the Volvo Prize, the Zayed prize, the Rossby Medal and the Buys-Ballot Medal for pioneering studies in climate and environment. He has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy by Pope John Paul II and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
*CME/CEU Credits
The CME for this course has expired, however you will continue to have access to your purchased content.