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Health, the Human Face of Climate Change
Dwight Krehbiel
Every other Friday, Jan 30, Feb 13, 27, Mar 13, 27, Apr 10
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Kaye Penner Education Center, Classrooms A & B
Kidron Bethel Village
3001 Ivy Drive
North Newton, KS 67117
Course Cost: $50
This course will explore the many health impacts of climate change and how effective climate action can prevent or reduce them. Risks and pressures from extreme heat, air pollution, infectious disease, nutrition, and migration increase with climate change, and can all affect physical and mental health. A unifying theme of the course is that these effects on health are central to our human experience of climate change and can serve as strong motivators for effective climate action. These issues will be explored in six intergenerational discussions with Bethel College students and Bethel Psychology Professor Aimee Voth Siebert. Videos, brief articles, and computer simulations are among the resources that will be provided to inform our discussions. Dwight Krehbiel, a Bethel alumnus, earned a PhD in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1978. He has taught at Bethel College since 1978 (part-time since 2019), counting periodic sabbatical leaves. His areas of specialty are psychology and neuroscience, along with applied statistics and scientific computing. Since retirement from full-time teaching, he has devoted a great deal of time and effort to learning about climate change, attending countless training sessions and online discussions and lectures. Through online training on the En-ROADS software of the sustainability non-profit Climate Interactive, he has earned the credential of En-ROADS Climate Ambassador. He has conducted numerous workshops on climate change and led a Bluestem University course “Climate Change: Hope, Effective Action, and Climate Justice” in 2024. Aimee Voth Siebert joined Bethel’s Psychology Department in the fall of 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Psychology. She graduated from Bethel in 2010 with a BA in Psychology and Communication Arts, and a Neuroscience Certificate, then completed a MA in International Disaster Psychology at the University of Denver. For the previous 13 years, Aimee served and managed the State of Colorado’s Disaster Behavioral Health and Inclusion Program, applying psychological expertise to local, national and international public health emergencies, natural disasters and major community violence. She has extensive experience as a trainer and grant writer with the state of Colorado and as an Emergency Risk Communication Trainer, certified by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.