COURSE DETAILS:

Location: Cortes Island, BC

This course will combine:

• Four 3-hour in-class lecture times on Tuesday May 7th, Thursday May 9th, Tuesday May 21st, and Thursday May 23rd from 9:30am-12:20pm on Burnaby Campus, and
• Five days on Cortes Island from May 13-17th. *Note: May 12th and 18th will be full-day travel days.

Course Description: This field school is an intensive, interdisciplinary course addressing the themes of interconnected human, animal and ecosystem health, including social-ecological systems, human-environment relationships, eco-social health equity, and Ecosystem Approaches to Health (Ecohealth), One Health and Planetary Health. The field course will combine rural and remote island field experiences focused on integrative approaches to health, environment and community issues, with real-time connections with students and instructors from four universities (Guelph, UNBC, UQAM, SFU). Topics covered in this course will include health equity across the human, animal, and ecosystem interface; multisolving; ecological determinants of health; eco-social health literacy; and intergenerational, interspecies, and intersectoral innovations for climate justice and community health. The Ecosystem Approaches to Health pillars of sustainability, equity, transdisciplinarity, systems thinking, knowledge exchange, and participation will weave through the course. Field activities and inter-institutional learning will focus on the course theme of: “Climate health justice and reciprocity”. The course is supported by and connected to the Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health: www.copeh-canada.org.