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Planetary Health


SJMC
Enrollment in this course is by invitation only

About This Course

This course is intended to educate healthcare professionals about the nature and origins of the climate crisis. As professionals at the forefront of the health crisis engendered by various types of pollutions, rising temperatures, and other natural disasters, this course will also expose participants to solutions pioneered by doctors and healthcare workers and thereby hope to inspire participants to consciously inculcate sustainable practices in their professional lives.

It will help young and as well as senior professionals be ready and prepared for our climate driven future and its varied implication on health.

Requirements

This course is meant for Medical College Faculty, Medical / Allied Health Science Students, Public Health Professionals, Administrators, Health Researchers and Biomedical Scientists, Social Scientists (including Sociologists, Anthropologists, Psychologists)

Course Staff

Dr. Sonali Sathaye

Dr. Sonali Sathaye

Sonali Sathaye is an anthropologist by training and an educator by practice. She has been teaching across disciplines and in various contexts for two decades now. Beginning with teaching Anthropology to undergraduate students at Syracuse University, she has gone on to create and teach inter-disciplinary courses in Sociology, History and Theatre to college and school students in India and abroad.

For five years, she taught a course on Planetary Health at Queen Mary's University of London as part of their Master's in Global Public Health programme as a Honorary lecturer. Sonali is thrilled to be working at St John's Dept of Health and Humanities for the last year with a group of diverse individuals, all of whose work converges at the intersection of ecology and qualitative research.

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