Teaching Pack: Climate Change, Migration, and Health

This is the second of two lesson plans in a teaching pack on climate change, migration, and health, developed by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. In this lesson, students consider the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) and the Paris Agreement to understand how international treaties and negotiations related to global governance play a role in domestic policies related to climate change. The lesson applies a…

This is the first of two lesson plans in a teaching pack on climate change, migration, and health, developed by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. In this lesson, students learn how climate change impacts health and socioeconomic status, and examine policy-based approaches that aim to manage and mitigate these effects in individual countries. The lesson is based on policy briefs related to disaster management and economic development policies, and invites…

This instructor’s note supports a teaching pack on climate change, migration, and health, developed by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. The note provides a brief overview, describes the teaching pack’s contents and instructional model, summarizes the two accompanying lessons and learning objectives, and offers a summary of a global health framework to help guide classroom discussion. The pack challenges students to consider how climate-related events that accompany global warming impact…