VIRTUAL COURSE: Climate, Environment, and Health for the Americas - Mobilizing transdisciplinary knowledge and training for policy action

This guide outlines a 40-hour self-paced virtual course by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. The course trains professionals in the Americas to use transdisciplinary research—integrating diverse stakeholders and disciplines—to address environmental determinants of health and develop effective public policies.

• The course aims to strengthen the ability of public sector actors in the Americas to adapt to environmental determinants of health (EDHs), specifically focusing on vulnerable populations. It advocates for an integrated approach involving the health sector and other fields such as climate, environment, and disaster risk management to create context-specific solutions.
• The training promotes a transdisciplinary (TD) approach, which is defined as a problem-driven and solution-oriented process where researchers collaborate with stakeholders—including policy-makers, implementers, and affected communities—through iterative co-development and ethical co-creation from the start of a project.
• The course is structured into five modules and five science communication sessions, with a recommended time commitment of 40 hours. The modules cover the definition of TD research, the practice of knowledge co-production, the design and implementation of TD approaches for policy analysis, the management of diverse teams, and TD grant writing and evaluation.
• A significant focus of the curriculum is on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). The course teaches participants how to include previously marginalized groups—such as women, people of color, indigenous communities, and youth/children—in the scientific process and how to manage diverse teams ethically.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (n.d.). VIRTUAL COURSE: Climate, Environment, and Health for the Americas - Mobilizing transdisciplinary knowledge and training for policy action. https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/CEH%20self%20paced%20course%20IAI%202023-08-12%20(1).pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. VIRTUAL COURSE: Climate, Environment, and Health for the Americas - Mobilizing transdisciplinary knowledge and training for policy action. n.d. https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/CEH%20self%20paced%20course%20IAI%202023-08-12%20(1).pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearchndvirtual, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{VIRTUAL COURSE: Climate, Environment, and Health for the Americas - Mobilizing transdisciplinary knowledge and training for policy action}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, url = {https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/CEH%20self%20paced%20course%20IAI%202023-08-12%20(1).pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }