Preventive Pros: the Podcast

About this week’s episode

Climate Change and Rethinking the Status Quo with Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, ScD, MPH, MRPL

Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, ScD MPH, MRPL, associate professor of population and public health sciences in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at Keck School of Medicine of USC, examines the role society and policies play in climate change, the need to confront the big questions, and how we might adjust our approach to improve humanity’s outcome.

Irfan’s research questions things that are normalized within neoliberalized academy by applying the decolonial lens to re-think existing global environmental research, teaching, and practice paradigms; especially within the climate justice context. Irfan developed and teaches  PM 599: Social Dimensions of Climate Change in a Sustainable World, which introduces students to a wide range of climate health areas, including the foundations of climate science, climate justice, climate coloniality, climate vulnerability, politics of climate change, geoengineering, and climate ethics, and climate communications. His mission is for students to actively contribute to social mobilization around climate change by developing climate and science communications skills and generating public scholarship to raise awareness and mobilize climate action.