The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health (YCCCH) envisions a world with a stable and safe climate in which human health and diverse ecosystems can thrive. The center uses research, education, public health practice, and policy development to help safeguard the health of human populations from the adverse impacts of climate change and human activities that cause climate change. The director of the Executive MPH Program, Martin Klein, MPH, PhD, was a co-founder of the initiative that became the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health and served as its first executive director. Dr. Robert Dubrow, MD, PhD, is the faculty director and leads the center.
The center works with academic, government, and civil society partners in its effort to make an impact locally, nationally, and globally. It integrates research and social justice into all its work, which includes:
- A vibrant research program, based in the CHEN Lab, that focuses on revealing the full spectrum of health impacts of climate change.
- An innovative Program on Health Care Sustainability that seeks to lower greenhouse gas emissions and increase the resilience of the health care sector.
- Its membership in The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, an international collaboration that publishes an annual report in The Lancet.
- Its sponsorship of a landmark virtual 2021 Conference on Climate Change and Health in Small Island Developing States: Focus on the Caribbean that was held in collaboration with Caribbean and international partners.
- A Climate Change and Health Concentration at YSPH offered to all MPH students.
- An online Climate Change and Health Certificate program offered to working professionals. The program has produced 700 graduates from 58 countries and nearly every U.S. state.
- A Program on Climate Change and Health in Connecticut that includes a CDC-funded partnership between YCCCH and the Connecticut Department of Public Health to build capacity in local health departments to address the health effects of climate change.
- A Clinic in Climate Justice, Law, and Public Health that trains interdisciplinary student teams to carry out applied research or practice projects related to the clinic’s theme.
There are several ways Executive MPH students get involved with the center.
- The YCCCH seminar series is open to the public (via Zoom meeting registration), so EMPH students can attend.
- EMPH students are welcome to subscribe to the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health monthly newsletter, which features news and opportunities from its network of affiliated faculty, staff, students, and partners.
- EMPH students can also enquire about applying to a YCCCH Student Fellow position. The positions support the center’s staff and faculty on research and communications.
If you’d like more information, contact YCCCH Executive Director Jennifer Wang.