The Impact of Climate Change on Global Health:
A joint research project between Purple Eagle Ventures, the venture fund for high school students at Barack Obama Academy of International Studies, a Pittsburgh Public School, and the Eurasia Group Foundation.
About the Project
In association with its student-run venture fund, Purple Eagle Ventures (“PEV”), students from the Barack Obama Academy of International Studies (“Obama Academy”) will join the Eurasia Group Foundation (“EGF”) in the co-development of content with short online educational lessons and an educational short length video targeted to teenage students around the world that explores the intersection of climate change and global health to launch on Earth Day on April 22, 2021.
About Eurasia Group Foundation
EGF is a nonpartisan public charity working to connect people to the major world events shaping their lives and making complex issues accessible and understandable. With a priority serving non-experts, particularly underserved youth, EGF works to create informed citizens who actively participate in their communities and the world. EGF has developed a high-school curriculum, Globalization, Robots and You, that explores globalization in ways that resonate with students. Launched in 2019, and translated into a fully online version, the completely free five-day course has already impacted roughly 14,000 students worldwide. Renowned political scientist and leading thinker on political risk, Ian Bremmer, founded EGF where he continues to serve as board president.
About Obama Academy and Purple Eagle Ventures
Obama Academy is a 6-12 magnet public school drawing students from the entire Pittsburgh school district. It is also the only urban International Baccalaureate (“IB”) school in Western Pennsylvania. Obama Academy has an 859-student enrollment.
Purple Eagle Ventures (“PEV”) is a venture fund formed by students at Obama Academy. PEV’s mission is to have our students participate in for-profit and social entrepreneurship, along with promoting financial and economic literacy to our student body.
If you wish to learn more about this project, including donations, please email us.
If you are a Pittsburgh Obama Academy student and would like to get involved, please fill out this form.