Opportunities for Strengthening Climate Education for Clinical Health Professionals

As we bear witness to increasing disease, injury, disruption, and displacement from a changing climate, health professional education is finally coalescing around the imperative to upgrade training programs to address this health threat. There remains a conspicuous knowledge gap within health care on basic environmental health linkages, health vulnerabilities susceptible to climate change, health care system sustainability and resiliency, and climate health communication and leadership. The authors will review successful examples and demonstrable impacts of current efforts to scale-up a climate-savvy health care workforce and will close with a review of opportunities ahead for this urgent educational movement.