Join an the discussion on Climate Change Policy and Public Health following the first of a series of four Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on this subject. 6:30pm Wed Nov 11 in the upstairs meeting room. To take the class go to www.coursera.org/course/ccandp
This first discussion will cover the science of climate change and its known impacts on public health as well as a review the Lima Decision, where at the 20th Conference of the Parties held in Lima, health concerns were explicitly mentions for the first time as a requirement for countries to consider in their formal policy planning for climate change mitigation and adaptation.