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The Future of Careers at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health: What Can Job Postings and an Employer Survey Tell Us?
Climate change is acknowledged to be a major risk to public health. Skills and competencies related to climate change are becoming a part of the curriculum at schools of public health and are now a competency required by schools in Europe and Australia. However, it is unclear whether graduates of pu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068354/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32085475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041310 |
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author | Krasna, Heather Czabanowska, Katarzyna Jiang, Shan Khadka, Simran Morita, Haruka Kornfeld, Julie Shaman, Jeffrey |
author_facet | Krasna, Heather Czabanowska, Katarzyna Jiang, Shan Khadka, Simran Morita, Haruka Kornfeld, Julie Shaman, Jeffrey |
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description | Climate change is acknowledged to be a major risk to public health. Skills and competencies related to climate change are becoming a part of the curriculum at schools of public health and are now a competency required by schools in Europe and Australia. However, it is unclear whether graduates of public health programs focusing on climate change are in demand in the current job market. The authors analyzed current job postings, 16 years worth of job postings on a public health job board, and survey responses from prospective employers. The current job market appears small but there is evidence from job postings that it may be growing, and 91.7% of survey respondents believe the need for public health professionals with training in climate change may grow in the next 5–10 years. Current employers value skills/competencies such as the knowledge of climate mitigation/adaptation, climate-health justice, direct/indirect and downstream effects of climate on health, health impact assessment, risk assessment, pollution-health consequences and causes, Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping, communication/writing, finance/economics, policy analysis, systems thinking, and interdisciplinary understanding. Ensuring that competencies align with current and future needs is a key aspect of curriculum development. At the same time, we recognize that while we attempt to predict future workforce needs with historical data or surveys, the disruptive reality created by climate change cannot be modeled from prior trends, and we must therefore adopt new paradigms of education for the emerging future. |
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spelling | pubmed-70683542020-03-19 The Future of Careers at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health: What Can Job Postings and an Employer Survey Tell Us? Krasna, Heather Czabanowska, Katarzyna Jiang, Shan Khadka, Simran Morita, Haruka Kornfeld, Julie Shaman, Jeffrey Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Climate change is acknowledged to be a major risk to public health. Skills and competencies related to climate change are becoming a part of the curriculum at schools of public health and are now a competency required by schools in Europe and Australia. However, it is unclear whether graduates of public health programs focusing on climate change are in demand in the current job market. The authors analyzed current job postings, 16 years worth of job postings on a public health job board, and survey responses from prospective employers. The current job market appears small but there is evidence from job postings that it may be growing, and 91.7% of survey respondents believe the need for public health professionals with training in climate change may grow in the next 5–10 years. Current employers value skills/competencies such as the knowledge of climate mitigation/adaptation, climate-health justice, direct/indirect and downstream effects of climate on health, health impact assessment, risk assessment, pollution-health consequences and causes, Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping, communication/writing, finance/economics, policy analysis, systems thinking, and interdisciplinary understanding. Ensuring that competencies align with current and future needs is a key aspect of curriculum development. At the same time, we recognize that while we attempt to predict future workforce needs with historical data or surveys, the disruptive reality created by climate change cannot be modeled from prior trends, and we must therefore adopt new paradigms of education for the emerging future. MDPI 2020-02-18 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7068354/ /pubmed/32085475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041310 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Krasna, Heather Czabanowska, Katarzyna Jiang, Shan Khadka, Simran Morita, Haruka Kornfeld, Julie Shaman, Jeffrey The Future of Careers at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health: What Can Job Postings and an Employer Survey Tell Us? |
title | The Future of Careers at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health: What Can Job Postings and an Employer Survey Tell Us? |
title_full | The Future of Careers at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health: What Can Job Postings and an Employer Survey Tell Us? |
title_fullStr | The Future of Careers at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health: What Can Job Postings and an Employer Survey Tell Us? |
title_full_unstemmed | The Future of Careers at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health: What Can Job Postings and an Employer Survey Tell Us? |
title_short | The Future of Careers at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health: What Can Job Postings and an Employer Survey Tell Us? |
title_sort | future of careers at the intersection of climate change and public health: what can job postings and an employer survey tell us? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068354/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32085475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041310 |
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