June 11th 2025 | 1pm-2pm (EDT)
Learning objectives
Inform municipal staff and local stakeholders about:
- the health and health equity risks presented by floods;
- actions being taken by some municipalities to reduce the risk of flooding;
- how the HPC tool can be used to reduce health inequities in their communities when developing climate change adaptation and flood risk mitigation plans.
Speakers

Rebekka Schnitter, PhD candidate
Climate Change and Health Specialist
BC Ministry of Health,
Climate Resilience Unit
Rebekka is a climate change and health specialist in the Ministry of Health’s Climate Resilience Unit. Prior to her position with the B.C. Government, Rebekka worked at Health Canada’s Climate Change and Health Office where she was a co-editor and lead author of the national climate change and health assessment that was published in 2022. Rebekka is also a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta where her research explores and assesses the climate change and health literacy of climate change professionals across Canada.

Emily Peterson
Senior Environmental Health Scientist Healthy Environments & Climate Change Vancouver Coastal Health
Emily is the Senior Environmental Health Scientist on the Healthy Environments & Climate Change team at Vancouver Coastal Health. She works in partnership with local and regional governments, academics and community organizations on a wide range of complex and rapidly evolving environmental health topics including air quality, climate change, environmental contamination, and healthy community design.

Dr. Dany Doiron, PhD
CANUE Managing Director
Dany holds a PhD in Epidemiology and has been working as an environmental epidemiologist for over a decade. He is the Managing Director of the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE), a pan-Canadian platform that generates and collates health-relevant standardized urban environmental data for all locations in Canada and maintains a working data platform that disseminate these datasets free of charge to Canadian researchers. He also serves as the Co-Director of the HealthyPlan.City project. Dany is a Research Associate at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health at Université de Montréal. His research focuses on the effects of ambient air pollution on respiratory health.