Increasing awareness and knowledge about the consequences and impacts of the climate crisis and environmental degradation is crucial. It empowers individuals and organizations to effectively recognize, anticipate, prevent and respond to these challenges. It also helps with raising awareness, conducting policy work and advocacy.

It is essential to acknowledge the diverse factors that may affect access to information, including time, language and contexts where information may not be equally available to all. MSF aims to help address these gaps by providing a curated collection of internal and select external resources developed by MSF colleagues, made available in multiple languages where possible, on climate and health topics. These resources aim to facilitate learning, sharing, discussion, debate, planning, innovation, acting and scaling.

Humanitarians interested in the intersection between climate and health can benefit from a range of resources spanning academic, professional and advocacy platforms. Here is a curated list of learning resources for this topic:

Online courses:

• Many universities and organizations offer online courses on climate change, some of which focus specifically on health impacts:
• The Health effects of Climate Change (EdX/Harvard)
• Climate Change and Health (Imperial College London / Coursera)

Podcasts and webinars:

• The Climate Question from the BBC reflects on the best ways to avert, temper or adapt to climate change.
• The Climate Health Now Podcast focuses on the health impacts of climate change, with perspectives from health professionals.

Books:

• Climate Information for Public Health Action (in open-access) by Madeleine C. Thomson and Simon J. Mason offers guidance on using climate data to inform public health strategies, and to address climate-related risks and diseases. 
• Climate Change and the Health sector (in open-access) by Thomas, Alexander, Reddy, K. Srinath, Alexander, Divya, Prabhakaran, Poornima offers comprehensive global and Indian perspectives on the impacts of climate change on the health sector.
• Communicating Climate Change (in open-access)  by Anne K. Armstrong, Marianne E. Krasny and Jonathan P. Schuldt synthesizes research from environmental psychology and climate change communication, weaving in examples of environmental education applications throughout this practical book.
• Global climate change and human health: From science to practice by George Luber and Jay Lemery explores in depth the impacts of global warming and climate change on human health and risk for disease.

Web Platforms:

• ClimaHealth, WHO’s and WMO’s global knowledge platform for climate and public health
• ClimateWatch, a platform that offers open data, visualizations and analysis on various countries’ climate progress.
• The Global Climate and Health Alliance website offers resources, news, and advocacy materials related to climate change and health.
• Health Care Without Harm’s platform supports healthcare systems worldwide to become more sustainable through efforts aimed at reducing their environmental footprint.
• Planetary Health Alliance offers a wide range of educational resources that aim to integrate planetary health into global health and human development communities. 
• The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) platform offers educational tools for health practitioners around the world to better integrate knowledge of health impacts of climate change into healthcare delivery.

Reports and publications:

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports provide extensive data and analyses on various aspects of climate change, including its impact on health.
• WHO’s and PAHO’s Climate and Health Country Profile offers insights into country-specific challenges and opportunities related to climate change and health.
• Red Cross and Red Crescent Climate Centre Country Climate Fact Sheets investigate the direct and indirect climate links with health outcomes.
• Plos Climate and MSF research on the Impacts of climate change on human health in humanitarian settings: Evidence gaps and future research needs

The Lancet Countdown on Health & Climate Change is an annually published report that offers an in-depth assessment of global progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement. It is unique in that the findings are mutually agreed upon by the consensus of 51 leading academic institutions and UN agencies.