This unit provides a regional and global perspective on health impacts from environmental disturbance. Topics include historical, current and emerging perspectives of ecological change and disease; health perspectives of threats to water and food security; health consequences of human population growth and urbanisation; global processes and health including the effects of climate change and natural disasters; ecosystem change and infectious disease ecology; and the future for Australia's environments and human communities. <br/><br/>Lectures are supported by the intensive use of case studies and online discussions of recent national and international issues. -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Angus Cook
