Catalysing Transformative Change in Planetary Health Education (CATA-Earth) Consortium
Speakers
Dr. George Downward, MBChB, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor at UMC Utrecht and an affiliated researcher at the Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University
Prof. dr. Diantha Soemantri, MMedEd, PhD
Professor in medical education in the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia
Prof. dr. Mohammad Mohinuzzaman, PhD
Chairman, Department of Environmental Science and Disaster Management of Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh
Dr. Sayed Mohammad Nazim Uddin
Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences and Founding Director of the Center for Climate Change and Environmental Health (CCCEH) at AUW
Prof. Dr. Indah K Murni, MD, PhD
Pediatrician and Pediatric Cardiologist at DR Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and Professor at the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Dr. Camilla Alay Llamas, MD, MPH
Project manager and PhD student, Universitair Medisch Centrum (UMC) Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care
Event Details
The Planetary Health field seeks to understand the inextricable link between health and the environment. Embedding planetary health education in curricula is urgently needed to deliver new transdisciplinary, intersectoral solutions to complex planetary challenges. The “Catalysing Transformative Change in Planetary Health Education” (CATA-Earth) project aims to build capacity for designing and delivering innovative community-driven planetary health education in climate-vulnerable regions in Asia and to create a new generation of changemakers with actionable planetary health knowledge and skills.
This is achieved by employing Community Engaged Learning and Challenge-Based Learning methods and a “Co-Design, Co-Develop and Co-Deliver” approach involving academic and non-academic stakeholders at all phases of the project. The outputs include developing a planetary health education Framework and Toolkit that will result in four accredited context-specific planetary health HEI courses and a Massive Open Online Course, each incorporating the priorities of students, enterprises and local communities, and aligned to regional socio-economic and environmental challenges.
The CATA-Earth project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme under Grant Agreement no. 101128952
