Webinar 1: Folding health and health equity into climate action and adaptation plans

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April 16th 2025 | 1pm-2pm (EDT)

Learning objectives

Inform municipal staff and local stakeholders about:

  • the health and health equity risks presented by climate change;

  • the health and health equity benefits associated with local climate mitigation and adaptation measures;

  • how the HealthyPlan.City tool can be used by municipalities to identify and prioritize health inequities in their communities when developing climate change mitigation and climate adaptation plans.

Speakers

Jeffrey Brook, Ph.D.
Scientific Director and
Nominated Principal Investigator

Dr. Brook is the Scientific Director at CANUE. an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. For over 25 years he was a research scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada. He has wide ranging expertise related to air quality and environmental health, contributing to the development of Canadian policy through his research, participation on national and international committees, past leadership on federal science assessments and through studies on children’s health via his leadership role on the CHILD (Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development) Cohort Study. Dr. Brook started and serves as the scientific director of the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE.ca), which represents an open data resource for Canadian researchers. He is one of the co-directors of HealthyDesign.City, which aims to make CANUE data visualization and analysis tools widely accessible.

Kim Perrotta, MHSc
CHASE Executive Director

Kim Perrotta has a Master’s degree in Health Science and over 30 years of experience promoting environmental and built environment policies that improve health and health equity for organizations such as Toronto Public Health, Healthy Canada by Design, and the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA).  She is the editor of CAPE’s 240-page Climate Change Toolkit for Health Professionals and the author of the 2023 CPHA/CHASE/OPHA report Climate Change, Population Health and Health Equity: Public health strategies and five climate solutions that produce health and health benefits (CPHA: Canadian Public Health Association, CHASE: Canadian Health Association for Sustainability and Equity and OPHA: Ontario Public Health Association). Kim is currently the Executive Director of the Canadian Health Association for Sustainability and Equity (CHASE).

Dany Doiron, Ph.D.
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.

Webinar 2: Folding health and health equity into extreme heat adaptation

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May 14th 2025 | 1pm-2pm (EDT)

Learning objectives

Inform municipal staff and local stakeholders about:

  • the health and health equity risks presented by extreme heat;
  • the health and health equity benefits that can be associated with some nature-based solutions;
  • how the HealthyPlan.City tool identifies health inequities that can help inform climate change adaptation plans addressing extreme heat.

Speakers

Micheal Lee
Senior scientist 

Michael Lee is a senior scientist with environmental health services at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. His work is focused on developing and implementing applied research and surveillance programs to enable us to better understand and address the interconnections between human health, animal health, and environmental health. Michael’s portfolio includes extreme heat, wildfire smoke, cyanobacteria, biotoxins, and other environmental health related issues.  

Dany Doiron, Ph.D.
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.

PRESS RELEASE: a new project to assist and build capacity for municipalities to fold health and health equity considerations into their climate adaptation plans

THE CANADIAN URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (CANUE) 

Press release

Montreal, February 14th, 2025 – Over the next two years, the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE)  will receive funding from  the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation program. With an investment of $30 million in the LLCA program, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, and Rebecca Bligh, President of the FCM, want to highlight adaptation in action within local governments and establish collaborations for long-term success. 

The funded project aims to assist and build capacity for municipalities to fold health and health equity considerations into their climate adaptation plans. Specifically, the project will allow municipalities to learn about how they can develop climate adaptation plans that maximize the health and health equity benefits of their residents.   Through a variety of capacity building activities, the project will increase awareness about the health and health equity risks that climate change presents and on the strategies that can be used to integrate those considerations into  local plans to fight climate change and create more resilient communities. 

CANUE will introduce municipalities to its HealthyPlan.City tool, which helps them identify the neighbourhoods and populations that are at greatest  risk from climate-related impacts. CANUE will also organize peer-to-peer webinars that showcase leaders in this field and convene inter-sectoral workshops with municipalities that want to develop climate adaptation plans that maximize health and health equity benefits for their communities.  

For more information: FCM press release

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