Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeFaculty of Health and Society

Health emergencies, environmental health, human development and social policy

Faculty of Health and Society

Risk reaches people through their lungs, their work, their income and their rights: an outbreak doubles in a crowded cell, a hospital network has no surge capacity, a transition takes away a livelihood without remedy.

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Faculty of Health and Society: 3 departments and 11 disciplines, drawn as an epidemic curve. 2 disciplines with open courses; primary courses 2 open, 5 in preparation and 9 approved for authoring. 01 Department of Global Health Security: Public health emergencies and epidemics (1 open, 3 in preparation, 2 approved); Health systems and health care resilience (0 open, 1 in preparation, 0 approved); Biotechnology, biosecurity and neurotechnology (0 open, 0 in preparation, 2 approved); Epidemic modelling and forecasting (0 open, 0 in preparation, 0 approved). 02 Department of Environmental and One Health: One Health, zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance (0 open, 0 in preparation, 1 approved); Pollution and environmental health (0 open, 1 in preparation, 1 approved); Climate and health (0 open, 0 in preparation, 0 approved). 03 Department of Human Development, Work and Social Policy: Human development, poverty and inequality (0 open, 0 in preparation, 1 approved); Just transition, social and human rights risk (1 open, 0 in preparation, 1 approved); Work, skills and occupational safety (0 open, 0 in preparation, 1 approved); Mental health and psychosocial risk (0 open, 0 in preparation, 0 approved).
Health and Society: departments, disciplines and courses. Drawn as an epidemic curve.
  • Open, 2
  • In preparation, 5
  • Approved for authoring, 9
From the Academy atlas and the curriculum: primary courses only; numbers mark departments.
Twin builder and simulatorDelhi and its National Capital Territory core5 twin generators, 12 layers, 3 instruments
disciplines in 3 departments
11
courses open now, 5 in preparation
2
hospitals
950
people in the box, 2020
26,073,018

Twin figures for Delhi and its National Capital Territory core, counted from its layers at their stated dates.

Twin builder and simulator.

The faculty's twin of Delhi on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.

Delhi and its National Capital Territory core: a flat plan of the faculty twin. Terrain 191 to 315 m; 950 hospitals; 26,073,018 people in the box, 2020; Population density, GPW v4.11 (2020): live, loads in the twin; Air quality, Copernicus CAMS via Open-Meteo (hourly, 5 days): live, loads in the twin; Nitrogen dioxide column, TROPOMI (Sentinel-5P): live, loads in the twin; Surface air temperature, AIRS (daily, day): live, loads in the twin; Urban heat island, summer daytime 2013: live, loads in the twin; Built-up and settlement extent, HBASE 2010: live, loads in the twin. Contours every 50 metres from the elevation grid; people per cell, worldpop 2020 as four classes per cell (edges 4,474, 14,627, 25,652); hospitals as marks.
Delhi and its National Capital Territory core, India. Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the WorldPop count grid as cells, the mapped hospitals and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
  • Terrain 191 to 315 m
  • 950 hospitals
  • 26,073,018 people in the box, 2020
  • Population density, GPW v4.11 (2020): live, loads in the twin
  • Air quality, Copernicus CAMS via Open-Meteo (hourly, 5 days): live, loads in the twin
  • Nitrogen dioxide column, TROPOMI (Sentinel-5P): live, loads in the twin
  • Surface air temperature, AIRS (daily, day): live, loads in the twin
  • Urban heat island, summer daytime 2013: live, loads in the twin
  • Built-up and settlement extent, HBASE 2010: live, loads in the twin
Credits and dates per layer are listed under the stage. Relief in the twin is exaggerated ×1.5 for legibility.

Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.

Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the WorldPop count grid as cells, the mapped hospitals and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.

The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).

What the faculty teaches.

On the count grid, hospitals and air of Delhi the stage carries a compartmental epidemic explorer with its parameters on screen, exposure on the WorldPop grid and CAMS air quality read against the WHO 2021 guideline values, under the International Health Regulations (2005), ISO 45001:2018 and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. A graduate can run a compartmental model and say why it is not a forecast, and count who is exposed without claiming who is affected.

Faculty of Health and Society groups 11 disciplines into 3 departments. 2 of the 7 courses whose primary discipline is here are open for enrolment and the rest are in preparation; all of them are taught on the Risk Academy main site, so your record stays in one place.

A graduate can

  • Run a compartmental model with stated parameters, read R0, the peak and the final size off it, and say why it is not a forecast.
  • Read a modelled air-quality series against the WHO 2021 guideline values and write an exposure note that names the model, its resolution and its date.
  • Build an exposure layer from a population grid and a hazard footprint, state what is an estimate, and count who is exposed without claiming who is affected.
  • Assess a health system's surge capacity from mapped facilities, workforce and supply data under the International Health Regulations and the hospital safety index method.
  • Carry out human rights due diligence and a just-transition assessment for a project or policy, with grievance and remedy, under the UN Guiding Principles and the ILO guidelines.

3 departments, 11 disciplines.

Numbered as on the faculty figure at the top of the page. Each card counts the department's disciplines and the courses whose primary discipline is there.

Disciplines by status.

Each discipline once, in its department. A mark is one primary course, filled when it is open.

Where the field is moving.

Emerging areas, the technologies changing practice and the bodies that set the field's methods, from the faculty's expert review. Named for orientation; none of them endorses the Academy.

What is changing now.

The newest developments cited on the faculty's discipline pages, sources checked on 16 October 2026. Each links to its discipline and its source.

The faculty hub.

News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.

The newest research, preprints, news and humanitarian reports for 11 disciplines, each with its source and date, load here. Open the research and news hub

Public health emergencies and epidemics, Health systems and health care resilience, Biotechnology, biosecurity and neurotechnology, Epidemic modelling and forecasting, One Health, zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance, Pollution and environmental health, Climate and health, Human development, poverty and inequality, Just transition, social and human rights risk, Work, skills and occupational safety, Mental health and psychosocial risk

Where to start, and where it leads.

The faculty's entry course, then its flagship pathways and the Academy flagship in Nexus-Based Risk Management.

2 open, 5 in preparation.

Courses with their primary discipline in this faculty. Open courses link to the catalogue; the others are listed so you can plan.

The standards it teaches toward.

The Nexus Standards subsites whose standards the faculty's disciplines teach, by the Academy's proposed mapping.

Where these subjects are practised.

Where the faculty practises.

LabWhat you do in itCourses using it
Map labRead hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps5
Network labBuild dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades4
Exposure labOverlay people and assets with hazard footprints2

Nexus programmes that span faculties.

Each programme joins disciplines from more than one faculty and is hosted by an institute on the main site; it is listed on every faculty it spans.

Institutes that convene the faculty.

Terms used on this page.

Faculty of Health and Society

Start in one department.

Each department lists its disciplines, courses and pathways; each discipline its scope, labs, technology and key terms.

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