Requirements for Certificate in Climate, Justice, Health, and Sustainability
The certificate required a minimum of 12 credit hours from all five categories. To ensure students have the appropriate number of credits at the end of the certificate. After completing a course in each category, you can take an additional course in any category (A through D) to a total of 12 credit hours.
- One course from Category A: Climate, Health Equity and Sustainability
- One course from Category B: Climate Science and Climate Data
- One course from Category C: Adaptation, Mitigation, Emergency Response, and Sustainable Systems
- One course from Category D: Community Resilience, Advocacy and Planning
- One course from Category E: Climate and Health Practice Opportunity
To fulfill the certificate requirements, all students must achieve a grade of ‘B’ or higher in each course.
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At least one of the following courses (in category A)
- EHS 596 Climate, Justice, Health and Sustainability (Winter, 2 credits)
- EHS 672 Health and Sustainable Foods and Products (Winter, 3 credits)
At least one of the following courses (in category B)
- CLIMATE 466 Carbon-Climate Interaction (Fall, 3 credits)
- CLIMATE 586 Advanced Data Analysis Techniques (Fall, 3 credits)
- CLIMATE 473 Climate Physics (Fall, 3 credits)
- EAS 501.008 Climate Change, Energy and Social Justice (Fall, 1-4 credits)
- EAS 531.001 Principles of GIS (ENVIRON 411) (Fall, Winter, 4 credits)
- EAS 543.001 Environmental Spatial Analysis (Fall, 1.5-3 credits)
- EHS 574 Environmental Chemistry (CHEM 574 ) (Fall, 3 credits)
- EHS 608/EPID 608 Occupational and Environ Epidemiology (Winter, 3 credits)
- EHS/EPID 675 Data Analysis for Environ Epidemiology (Winter, 3 credits)
- EPID 684 Theory and Applications of Spatial Epidemiology (Winter, 3 credits)
- EPID 521 Intro to GIS for Public Health Research (Winter, 1 credit)
- EPID 592 Intro to Spatial Epid & GIS for Public Health (Winter, 4 credits)
- EPID 605 Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Fall, 3 credits)
- HBHEQ 626 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Health Behavior (Fall, 3 credits)
At least one of the following courses (in category C)
- CLIMATE 480 Climate Change (EAS 480): A multidisciplinary approach to problem solving (Winter, 3 credits)
- EAS 501.072 Entrepreneurship and innovation for sustainability (Fall, 3 credits)
- EAS 501.106 Methods and Approaches to Sustainable Development Problems (Fall, 3 credits)
- EAS 501.107: Sustainable Development Foundations: Cross-Cutting Issues (Fall, 1,5 credits)
- EAS 574.001 Sustainable Energy Systems (Fall, 3 credits)
- EAS 501.074 Sustainable Urban Systems W Grad standing (Winter, credits)
- EAS 537.001 Urban Sustainability (Fall, 3 credits)
- NUTR 555 Foundations of Sustainable Food Systems (Fall, 3 credits)
- EHS 592 Infectious Disease and Emergency Response (Fall, 3 credits)
- EHS 594 Global Environment and Health Enforced: PUBLTH (Winter, 2 credits)
- EHS 596 Climate, Justice, Health and Sustainability* (SU, 2 credits)
- EHS 672 Healthy and Sustainable Foods and Products-Life Cycle Assessment* (Winter, 3 credits)
- EHS 796 Disaster Response and Environmental Health (Fall, 2 credits)
- HMP 613 Climate Change and the Healthcare System (Winter, 1 credit)
- HMP 686/PUB POL 563 Politics of Environmental Protection (Winter, 3 credits)
- HMP 624 Health Policy Challenges in Developing Countries (Winter, 3 credits)
At least one of the following courses (in category D)
- Climate 530 Using climate-change knowledge in planning and design (Winter, 2 credits)
- EAS 677.041 Resilience Solutions: Climate Adaptation from Global to Local (Fall, 3 credits)
- EAS 555 Climate and Development (Winter, 3 credits)
- HBHEQ 690 Environmental Health Promotion (Fall, 3 credits)
- EAS 593 Environmental Justice (Fall, 3 credits)
- EAS 501.008 Climate Change, Energy, and Social Justice (Winter, 3 credits)
- EHS 597 Environmental Health and Policy (Winter, 3 credits)
- EHS 601 Exposure Science and Health (Fall, 3 credits)
- EHS 596 Climate, Justice, Health and Sustainability* (Winter, 2 credits)
- EHS 672 Healthy and Sustainable Foods and Products* (Winter, 3 credits)
- HBHEQ 590 Principles of Community Engagement for Health Promotion (Online Only)
- HBHEQ 591 Planning and Implementing Health Promotion Programs (SU, 3 credits)
- HBHEQ 733 Community-Based Participatory Research (Winter, 3 credits)
Category E (1-credit) Capstone Course (see below)
*Suitable unless already taken to satisfy another category
Students are required to take a 1-credit independent study capstone course – EHS 578
– and complete a capstone project. Students are encouraged to be creative in developing
their projects (traditional and non-traditional avenues should be explored). Students
can work with any faculty across UM to create their capstone projects. Capstone projects
could include translational research or practice products focused on climate change
and health. Products and projects must have prior approval by the certificate director.
Acceptable products and projects include the following examples:
a. Interaction with practitioners or stakeholders (e.g., community leaders) to understand their climate and health issues and needs (including utilization of research in nonacademic settings)
b. Create population-facing resources and tools needed by the stakeholders (directly or indirectly)
c. Projects exploring how the climate work of an NGO or governmental agency advances health equity (e.g., relationship to EJ, health disparities, global inequities).
d. Creating a report that highlights translational research efforts (e.g., white paper, literature review) on a specific climate change and health outcome
e. Development of curriculum, factsheets, or communication tools for the target group
f. Conduct an organizational needs assessment including organizational barriers and constraints in climate change adaptation
g. Develop an evaluation plan (including logic models with outcomes, indicators and metrics)
h. Draft a climate change policy brief or policy evaluation
i. Climate change and health-associated research (research that improves our understanding of how climate impacts health)
j. Draft a risk assessment and risk management plan
k. Create action plans incorporating action-oriented strategies for just and sustainable solutions
l. Outline a proposed health equity project plan. The capstone project can have a practice or research focus. Successful completion of the capstone project is required for the certificate.