Training & Education Resources

One of the CAFÉ RCC’s missions is to connect members of the climate-health community, or those who might be interested in climate-health, to existing educational and training resources relating to climate-health, as well as the creation of our own resources through our team of educators, clinicians, and experts.

Upcoming CAFÉ University Webinars

Introducing our New State of the Science Webinar Series

As part of our ongoing CAFE University webinar series, our State of the Science webinars will feature expert speakers across disciplines who will provide a primer on the current state of climate and health research, designed for researchers working in different topic areas or who are new to the field.

Extreme Weather and Mental Health

April 3 | 12:00 pm ET
Speaker: Amruta Nori-Sarma, MPI of CAFE and Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 

Register now!


Other Upcoming Webinars

Processing and Visualizing Spatial Data and Disseminating Results Through Dashboards

This pair of webinars provides an introduction to a variety of programming and non-programming tools for working with and visualizing spatial data. Basic programming knowledge is recommended in either R or Python, but no prior experience with spatial data is needed. 

Facilitators: CAFE Data Team

Webinar 1: Introduction to processing and visualizing spatial data with R

April 8 | 9:30am-11am ET Register now!

Webinar 2: Introduction to processing and visualizing spatial data with Python and Datawrapper

April 18 | 9:30am-11am ET Register now!


Implementation Science in Climate & Health

Speaker: Saria Hassan, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Emory School of Medicine

NIH Grant Writing - How to Write a Strong Specific Aims Page

Speaker: Dr. Francesca Dominici

Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative

MPI of CAFE

Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Wrangling & Processing Historic Weather Data for Climate and Health Studies

Speaker: Rachel Nethery, PhD

Co-lead for CAFE Capacity Building Function

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

GIS 101 - Data to Maps in QGIS

Speaker: Kevin Lane, PhD, MA

Co-lead CAFE Data Management Function

Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health

Heat Health in India

Section 1: Heatwave Planning and Management in India

Section 2: Data and Research to Inform Health - Protective Heat Adaptation in India

Speakers:

Amruta Nori-Sarma, PhD MPI of CAFE

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Abhiyant Tiwari

Lead for health and Climate Resilience, NRDC India

Research to Inform Optimization of Heat Health Early Warning Systems

Speaker: Gregory Wellenius, SCD

MPI of CAFE

Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health

How can CAFE help with the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan?

Speaker: Julie Goldman, MLIS Research Data Services Librarian, Harvard University

Harnessing Data Science to Understand the Nutritional Importance of Aquatic Foods to Health and Sustainable Diets

Speakers:

Dr. Christopher Golden, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health

Dr. Laura Elsler, Research Associate

Dr. Jessica Zamborain-Mason, Research Associate

Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

CAFE Speakers at External Events

Wildfire Smoke, Air Quality, and Your Health

A Panel Discussion Hosted by the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Featuring: Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD, John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Joseph Allen, DSc, MPH Associate Professor of Exposure Assessment Science Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Director, Healthy Buildings

Patrick Kinney, ScD Beverly A. Brown Professor for the Improvement of Urban Health Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health

Jennifer Stowell, PhD, MPH Climate & Health Research Scientist Department of Environmental Health Boston University School of Public Health

External Educational Materials on Climate and Health:

Harvard X Courses:

  1. The Health Effects of Climate Change

  2. The Climate-Energy Challenge

  3. Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster

  4. Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety

  5. Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs

  6. Global Health Case Studies from a Biosocial Perspective

  7. Big Data for Social Good (certificate)

  8. Data Science Principles

  9. Principles, Statistical, and Computational Tools for Reproducible Science

  10. Quantitative Methods for Biology

BUSPH PHX Courses

  1. Mini Master in Public Health

  2. Foundations in Public Health, Parts 1-3

  3. Quantitative Methods Primer

  4. Cyclones and health [podcast]

Other Online Courses

  1. Coursera: Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change

  2. Coursera: Global Warming II: Create your own models in Python

  3. Coursera: From Climate Science to Action

  4. Coursera: Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries

  5. Coursera: Companies and Climate Change

  6. Coursera: Feeding the World

  7. Coursera: Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy

  8. GIS for Climate Action - ESRI

Trainings

  1. NIH Grant-Writing Short Course for Junior Investigators

  2. GitHub Reproducible Research Training

  3. Spatial Data Science with R

Free online books and texts

Other

Climate Bits (YouTube)

Atmospheric Tales: Shazhad Gani, Pallavi Pant, Milena Ponczek

Environmental Health News: Agents of Change

CAFÉ Educational Materials

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