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The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE), an international forum for developing curricula related to the health impacts of climate change, has announced an expanded set of key competencies for students of public health, nursing, and medicine.
The result of lessons learned from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the expanded competencies include added information on racial and ethnic disparities in health and the social and environmental determinants of health that make individuals and communities more vulnerable to climate-related health threats, as well as the importance of environmental justice and building resilience at individual, local, and global scales. The competencies now also include information on the connection between habitat and biodiversity loss and infectious diseases, and more on communicating climate and health information, and identifying ways to engage in interdisciplinary and collaborative climate response.