Today, the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University and The Geneva Learning Foundation announce a three-year partnership. Read the full press release and testimonials from health workers: redasadki.me/2026/04/21/heal… The agreement links expert-led climate and health education with frontline peer learning. We are signing it on Earth Day because the timing matters. The 2025 Lancet Countdown reports 12 of 20 climate-linked health indicators at record levels. The Belém Health Action Plan, launched at COP30, pledges USD 300 million for health adaptation. The WHO Global Action Plan names health workforce mobilization as a strategic priority. These frameworks define what needs to happen. The question they do not answer is how global commitments reach district hospitals, community clinics, and mobile health teams. This partnership offers a tested pathway. GCCHE brings 430 institutional members across 70 countries and 36,000 health professionals trained in 2025 alone. TGLF brings 80,000 practitioners across 137 countries, with two-thirds working in remote, rural, or urban-poor settings. The full announcement centers the health workers themselves. A physician in Yemen tracing drought to child malnutrition and immune collapse. A pharmacist in Ghana turning a community-funded canoe into four new clinics and a government road rehabilitation commitment. A nurse in the Democratic Republic of Congo documenting a women-led malaria initiative that measurably reduced cases. These are not anecdotes. They are structured evidence of health workers already responding to climate change.

Today, the global One Health summit opens in Lyon, France. linkedin.com/pulse/when-thre… Animals are dying in a village. Children are falling sick from the same contaminated water. The veterinary worker documents one. The nurse documents the other. They have never met. The connection is invisible to the system. Both workers can see it. 75% of new infectious diseases in humans originate in animals. Climate change is pushing disease vectors into regions that have never seen them. But the systems built to respond still operate in separate silos. We just launched a new primer: One Health: Connecting people, animals, and the environment. It is free, text-based, and works on any phone. You read short texts about why systems stay disconnected. Then you examine your own setting and exchange with a peer in another country. After completing our climate and health course, a health worker in Nepal wrote: “This transformed me from an implementer into a change agent.” Do not enroll alone. Think of one colleague who faces similar challenges and invite them. The course works best when you take it together.

Want help integrating climate change into your health professional curriculum? Join GCCHE’s Office Hours to Develop Climate & Health Curricula to share challenges, get personalized support, and grow your network. Register: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/m…