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Save the Date: Summer School Planetary Health September 1-10, 2023 in Würzburg!
Save the Date: this year´s Summer School Planetary Health will take place September 1-10, 2023 in Würzburg! More information will be published here soon, until then check out the 2022 program for more information, as this year´s summer school will be in a similar format.
Veröffentlichung in "The Lancet - Planetary Health"
Dr. Eva-Maria Schwienhorst-Stich ist eine der Hauptautorinnen des Artikels "The Planetary Health Academy - a virtual lecture series for transformative education in Germany", der Anfang Januar 2023 in "The Lancet - Planetary Health" erschien.
Der Artikel in der Spezialfachzeitschrift der renommierten medizinischen Zeitschrift "The Lancet" thematisiert die Notwendigkeit der Bewusstseinsbildung aller in Gesundheitsberufen Tätiger für die Zusammenhänge zwischen Gesundheit und Umweltveränderungen und der Wissensvermittlung zu den Möglichkeiten der Verringerung des ökologischen Schadens (ökologischer Fußabdruck) und Förderung positiver Veränderungen (ökologischer Handabdruck).
Bislang fehlen diese Aspekte in der Aus- und Weiterbildung der Gesundheitsberufe weitgehend. Die Autorinnen und Autoren berichten in dem Artikel über die Ergebnisse der Evaluation der Planetary Health Academy, der ersten offenen Online-Vortragsreihe für transformative Planetare Gesundheitsbildung in Deutschland.
In einer retrospektiven Online-Befragung berichteten 458 von 3656 Teilnehmenden der Planetary Health Academy über ihre Emotionen gegenüber dem Klimawandel, ihre Einstellung zur Verantwortung von Gesundheitsexpertinnen und -experten, ihre Selbstwirksamkeit und den Einfluss der Planetary Health Academy auf ihr Wissen und Handeln. Darüber hinaus wurden Motivatoren und Hindernisse für das Handeln bewertet.
Die Ergebnisse der Evaluation liefern Erkenntnisse für die zukünfigte Gestaltung transformativer Bildung. Gemeinsam mit dem Aufbau von Netzwerken und Bewegungen könnte Bildung als soziales Kippelement für Maßnahmen zur Abschwächung globaler Umweltveränderungen wirken.
International transdisciplinary Summer School Planetary Health, October 7 – 16, 2022 in Würzburg, Germany.
The Summer School is part of our DAAD funded project 'SOPHEA- Strengthening One Health and Planetary Health in Eastern Africa', a trilateral project between the universities of Würzburg in Germany, Eldoret in Kenia and Mwanza in Tanzania and will be held in corporation with the German Alliance for Climate Change and Health (KLUG e.V.).
The first Summer School Planetary Health took place October 7-16th with 30+ participants from 11 countries in Europe and Africa. We addressed a diverse range of topics from a Planetary Health lense, such as nutrition, biodiversity, agriculture, ethics & equity, mobility, heat & urban planning and many more. The summer school benefitted from many international speakers with excellent expertise, but also from the participants with diverse backgrounds and their project ideas they started preparing before the summer school and further developed jointly with the other participants in interdisciplinyre teams. We used have a mix of activities inside and outside the classroom for participants to take home not only knowledge, but motivation and ideas how they can get active in climate change mitigation and adaptation and strengthen planetary health where they live and work.
Planetary Health Short Course by the University of Eldoret, Kenia (June 21-24, 2022)
Our SOPHEA project coordinator Ms Melvine Anyango Otieno from the University of Eldoret, Kenya, organized an online short course on Planetary Health from June 21-24 2022.
The course is part of our DAAD funded project “SOPHEA- Strengthening One Health and Planetary Health in Eastern Africa”, a trilateral project between the universities of Würzburg in Germany, Eldoret in Kenia and Mwanza in Tanzania.
During five sessions, post-graduate students and researchers benefitted from international speakers with high expertise but also actively participated while brainstorming and presenting their own ideas on Planetary Health, One Health and Climate Change.
The students aquired the following competencies by participating in the course: Have a critical awareness of planetary health, one health and climate change, including trends of climate-sensitive infectious diseases, population health, air pollution, nutrition and other topics as well as climate change and planetary health opportunities and challenges in Kenya.
Concept note and agenda
