Honours Certificate in Education for Sustainable Health

This master's supplement is a unique opportunity to acquire knowledge about some of our time’s greatest challenges to health and how to address them. You will also develop the skills needed to transfer this knowledge to health professionals in different educational settings.

This Honours certificate offers you a unique opportunity to develop interdisciplinary competence in sustainable healthcare and understand and handle the occurring changes in health due to climate changes.

Obtain key competencies in sustainability and the challenges of ensuring sustainable healthcare

The Honors certificate will focus on, among other topics:

• the impact of climate change on human and environmental health.
• the relation between human, animal, and environmental health.
• how the term 'sustainable healthcare' is to be understood in an environmental, social and economic setting.
• and developing pedagogical and analytical skills to understand these issues while also developing skills to explain these issues to others.

You will learn about key competencies for sustainability and connect these to challenges to sustainable healthcare. And finally, learn how to teach these competencies to others in your own teaching and mentoring.

You will engage in cross-disciplinary collaboration

Through collaborative lectures with leading research environments, seminars which focuses on experimental methods and pedagogy and through case based group work, you will learn to better understand and address challenges to health posed by climate change, and issues of sustainability.

This master's supplement focuses strongly on student participation, preferably in groups of students from different scientific domains, and with seminars where the teacher's role will be to stimulate to systems thinking and cross-disciplinary collaboration when feasible.

For students at profession- or master level

The certificate is aimed at students with a strong personal interest in learning more about the intersection between climate, health and sustainability, as well as the pedagogical tools which can be used to developing creative responses to this.

The healthcare sector emits large amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG), and sustainability must be implemented in healthcare institutions as well as in all other sectors of the society. This implies that health professionals must learn to consider future and global consequences of their decisions and learn how to transfer that knowledge to others.

It runs simultaneously with your main Master programme

The certificate runs simultaneously with the second and third semester of your main two-year master's programme, or typically in the 7th and 8th or 8th and 9th semester of your professional programme in e.g. Medicine, Dentistry or Pharmacy.

You should choose this programme if you want to

• Better understand the health outcomes associated with climate change and disruption of ecosystems.
• Become familiar with different methods for analyzing issues pertaining to sustainable health

Develop pedagogical and analytical skills

• Understand complex problems and use systems thinking to address these problems.
• Gain pedagogical competence to teach or mentor with a holistic and future oriented approach.

Get experience with cross-disciplinary collaboration

• Work with experts within the field and students from other disciplines.
• From other fields of study, you get to know how they address the complexity and interconnectedness in issues on sustainability and health.

Partners

The Honours Certificate in Education for Sustainable Health is hosted by Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE). SHE is a Centre of Excellence in Education located within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo.