In the auditorium of the Plaza Colón headquarters, of the University of Sinú Sectional Cartagena, the activity Mirror Class: Climate Change was developed, organized by the Department of Preventive and Community Area and aimed at students from the schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Marine Biology .

Within the framework of international cooperation from the preventive area, the initiative was created to generate agreements with Jackson State University in Mississippi, in order to strengthen the processes of 4 structures: Research, teaching, extension and social projection, within which activities such as the Mirror Classes are promoted, whose main strategy is to ensure that students can demonstrate the dynamics of teaching from other perspectives and with different facilitators.

This talk was led by Dr. Nelson Atehortua, an expert in public health issues and who had the opportunity to share concepts and definitions that facilitate student learning regarding the impact of health in terms of climate change and pollution, since that it has been shown that these factors affect the burden of disease in a territory and it is important that they, as future health professionals, know what their role is in the process and how they can generate methods that allow mitigating the impact of climate change on current disease burden.

Topics such as global warming, environmental phenomena, air pollution, temperature and triggering of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, allowed the creation of a space for questions and concerns where students debated and contributed their ideas, while understanding the importance of these issues. concepts and the identification of such alterations that occur today and that could prevail or increase in the future, allowing them from their area of knowledge to intervene and possibly prevent.