Background
The resources below include links to external event listings, courses and conferences related to climate, global, and disaster health, and environmental sustainability. Please note that listing of an event does not constitute endorsement, and we encourage you to do your own research, especially before paying to attend an event.
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Courses, Conferences and Events
Timeline
External event listings
National Academy of Medicine (USA) Events listing for Climate Change and Sustainability.
NIH Fogarty Center – Advancing Science for Global Health
Calendar for Events, Conferences, Workshops and Observances (global listings).OGC Stakeholder Community Coordination Group Climate and Disaster Resilience Seminars. The talks will showcase geospatial technologies and data across a range of applications used in Climate and Disaster Resilience. The talks are free and open to the public. Anyone interested in how spatial data and technology can help us to improve climate and disaster resilience is encouraged to attend. Seminars are held monthly on the third Wednesday at 11:00-12:30 US Eastern.
Climate and Health Education courses for 2025
Introducing the Diploma in Climate Medicine. The University of Colorado School of Medicine is proud to offer a comprehensive professional development program for healthcare providers across all specialties. The Diploma in Climate Medicine trains leaders to advocate for climate-resilient, patient-centered policies that serve diverse communities and systems. The program is open to U.S.-based healthcare professionals with an advanced degree and licensure in any clinical field.
Conferences
June 2025
Climate Change & Infectious Disease Threats, 23-26 June 2025, Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, Germany
ESA Living Planet Symposium (From Observation to Climate Action and Sustainability for Earth), 23-27 June 2025, Vienna, Austria (Tutorials starting 22 June PM).
August 2025
Australian Disaster Resilience Conference, 27-28 August 2025, Perth, Western Australia.
September 2025
AFREhealth – The African Forum for Research and Education in Health 8th Annual Symposium, 22 September 2025, Dakar, Senegal.
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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~ A prince and attendants visiting a noble yogini at an Ashram. Murshidabad sub-style, c1765. (Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London) http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O97697/painting-unknown/ (accessed 01 August 2020).
~ Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe. Image Credit & Copyright: Carnegie Institution for Science. Image and explanation below downloaded from: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200426.html (accessed 31 July 2020).
Explanation: How big is our universe? This very question, among others, was debated by two leading astronomers 100 years ago today in what has become known as astronomy’s Great Debate. Many astronomers then believed that our Milky Way Galaxy was the entire universe. Many others, though, believed that our galaxy was just one of many. In the Great Debate, each argument was detailed, but no consensus was reached. The answer came over three years later with the detected variation of single spot in the Andromeda Nebula, as shown on the original glass discovery plate digitally reproduced here. When Edwin Hubble compared images, he noticed that this spot varied, and so wrote “VAR!” on the plate. The best explanation, Hubble knew, was that this spot was the image of a variable star that was very far away. So M31 was really the Andromeda Galaxy — a galaxy possibly similar to our own. The featured image may not be pretty, but the variable spot on it opened a door through which humanity gazed knowingly, for the first time, into a surprisingly vast cosmos.
~ Einstein quotation is available at: https://thequotes.in/the-important-thing-is-not-to-stop-questioning-curiosity-has-its-own-reason-for-existing-albert-einstein/.
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