"Fuelled by the intersecting challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and profound social, economic, and environmental injustices, calls for new ways to work together for a healthy, just, and sustainable future are burgeoning. Consequently, there is a growing imperative and mandate across the higher education space for transformative, inclusive, integrative—and sometimes disruptive—approaches to learning that strengthen our capacity to work towards the goals and imperatives of planetary health. This educational transformation requires attention to pathways of societal, policy, and system change, prioritising different voices and perspectives across jurisdictions, cultures, and learning contexts. " 

Redvers, N., Guzmán, C. A. F., & Parkes, M. W. (2023). Towards an educational praxis for planetary health: A call for transformative, inclusive, and integrative approaches for learning and relearning in the Anthropocene. The Lancet Planetary Health, 7(1), e77-e85.

This FMNHS Education Fellowship (January 2023 - June 2024) project was designed to:

1. Increase educator confidence and capacity to offer more planetary health curricula to our future health workforce,

2. Develop fit-for-purpose learning and teaching activities, designed by and for health professions students, and

3. Empower our future health workforce (FMNHS students) to contribute to address complex, global challenges.  

Using a co-design approach, self-nominated Champion Students and Educators from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University were supported to reformulate existing learning and teaching materials to embody best-practice Planetary Health Education (PHE)*. We engaged 69 PHE Champions including 48 students from 12 different disciplines. Together, they developed, piloted and refined a suite of workshop, lecture, assessment, tutorial, laboratory and other L&T activities which are being promoted for use by all educators within the Monash University's Faculty MNHS.

This project builds upon previous work, captured in this Moodle Site.  For access, please contact liza.barbour@monash.edu