Webinar 6 – Managing Coastal Erosion with an Equity Lens in Vancouver

Vancouver_costal

As our shorelines shift,
the solutions we build must protect both our natural ecosystems
and our most vulnerable communities. 

➡️Join Angela Danyluk (City of Vancouver) and Cory Douglas (Squamish Nation/Modern Formline Design) for a conversation on how Vancouver is shifting from “fighting” the ocean to “hosting” it. By merging climate science with a decolonized design approach, they will share how the city is transforming its shorelines into resilient, nature-based spaces. This session explores a future where coastal protection not only prevents flooding but also heals the relationship between the community, the Salish Sea, and the Host Nations.

Come learn how:

✅We are moving away from harsh concrete walls toward “nature-based” shorelines that feel like a natural extension of our local parks and beaches.

✅We are weaving together modern planning with local Indigenous wisdom to create a coastline that feels like home for everyone.

✅Pilot projects like the Coopers Tidal Terrace use soft greenery and textured surfaces to invite birds, marine life, and people back to the water’s edge.

Intended Audience:

  • Municipal staff working in public works, water management, sustainability, parks and recreations, or community services
  • Staff working in public health

February 25th 2026 | 1pm-2pm (EDT)

Speakers

Angela Danyluk
Manager of Climate Adaptation &
Equity in the Sustainability Group at the City of Vancouver

Her team collaborates with others to plan and deliver the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and uphold the Climate Justice Charter. Angela works across disciplines on projects and programs related to adaptation, sea level rise, extreme heat, equity and biodiversity. Angela has a BSc in marine biology and an MSc in ecological restoration and governance. She is a Registered Professional Biologist with the BC College of Applied Biology. Angela lives on the unceded traditional homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations where she enjoys arts & culture, hiking and taking photographs of wildflowers.

Cory Douglas
Cultural Design Advisor and Planner

 Cory Douglas is the lead design consultant for Modern Formline Design in project development, including integrating and implementing cultural components. The scope of work is tailored to suit by providing 25 years of experience as an artist, architectural technician, and designer to a variety of sectors both locally and nationally. Industries seeking this unique consultation are keen to represent the unceded territories in which they reside and function as part of tthe community. This includes professional and private Architectural companies, First Nation communities, government and municipalities, community centres, museums, art galleries, and educational institutes.

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This project is carried out with funding from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund
and the Government of Canada.

Webinar 5 – Toronto’s Equity-Based Green Streets Program

 

 ➡️ Is your municipality working to control stormwater, reduce flooding, and decrease water pollution?

➡️ Are you trying to green city streets and cool neighbourhoods?

➡️ Is your municipality working to protect those at greatest risk of harm from climate-related impacts? 

 

Come learn about Toronto’s Equity-based Green Streets program:

• how it was set up
• what neighbourhoods are being prioritized
• what it looks like in practice. 

Intended Audience:

  • Municipal staff working in public works, water management, sustainable development, parks and recreation, community services, transportation services
  • Staff working in public health

December 3rd 2025 | 1pm-2pm (EDT)

Speakers

Kristina Hausmanis

Senior Project Manager,
Green Streets Transportation Services

Kristina has spent over 18 years working in municipal government developing and implementing multidisciplinary programs at the City of Toronto.  In her current position as the Green Streets Senior Project Manager for Transportation Services, she coordinates the implementation of green infrastructure into right-of-way projects and is the chair of the City’s Green Street Working Group.  Kristina holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from McGill University and a Master of Environmental Science from the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. She is also a member of the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange and the American Public Works Association’s Sustainability and Resilience Committee.

Niloufar Mohajerani, M.A.Sc., P.Eng.

Senior Engineer
Stormwater Management Infrastructure
Design & Construction
Linear Underground Infrastructure
Engineering & Construction Services
City of Toronto

Nilou is a senior engineer with 12 years of experience with the City of Toronto. She is responsible for delivery of multi-million stromwater management capital projects
including green infrastructure installation within the Right-of Way and leads the design and construction of Green Infrastructure as a naturalize solution for building climate resiliency in Toronto. Her projects encompass various phases of building an infrastructure from design to construction and monitoring.
Nilou holds a bachelor degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in
environmental engineering.

Anisha Patel

Project Manager
Asset Management (Green Streets)
Transportation Services

Anisha is a Project Manager with the City’s Transportation Services Division in the City of Toronto with a focus on the City’s Green Streets Program. She holds a Bachelor’s degree of Applied Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Her 12-year career at the City has been focused around the planning, design and construction of municipal infrastructure.

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This project is carried out with funding from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund
and the Government of Canada.

Webinar 4 – Greening Underserved Schools while Preventing Floods in Chicago

 

Are you working to reduce flooding in your community?

Are you trying to green, high-density, low-income neighbourhoods?

Are you trying to promote social cohesion
and children’s health in under-serviced neighbourhoods?

 

Come learn about the Space to Grow project in Chicago where the city’s water and waste-water agencies are collaborating with school boards and a non-profit organizations to build green infrastructure on school yards that reduces flooding while creating yards that meet the needs of students and communities in low-income racialized neighbourhoods. 

Intended Audience:

  • Municipal staff working in public works, water management, sustainability, parks and recreations, or community services
  • Staff working with school boards
  • Staff working in public health

October 29th 2025 | 1pm-2:30pm (EDT)

Speakers

Emily Zhang
Space to Grow Project Manager
at Healthy Schools Campaign

Emily Zhang is the Space to Grow Project Manager at Healthy Schools Campaign where she supports the transformation of Chicago schoolyards into vibrant spaces that foster opportunities for health and wellness, outdoor learning, active play and green stormwater infrastructure. She helps convene the program’s partners, manages community design and facilitates long-term school support. With a background in geography and experience at the Urban Land Institute’s Healthy Places program, Emily is passionate about community-driven, equitable approaches to health and environmental justice.

Moriah Gelder
Engineer with the Metropolitan
Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

Moriah Gelder is an Associate Civil Engineer at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD). She earned her bachelor’s degree in general engineering from Harvey Mudd College and her master’s degree in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She worked as an environmental engineering consultant designing GI installations prior to joining the MWRD in 2018 where she was able to build on her background by joining the Stormwater Department’s GI subsection. Moriah serves as a project manager helping communities throughout Cook County design and construct GI projects through the Green Infrastructure Partnership Program and Space to Grow Program. 

To view recording, click on the image below:

This project is carried out with funding from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund
and the Government of Canada.

Webinar 3: Folding health and health equity into flood management

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.

To view recording, click on the image below:

This project is carried out with funding from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund
and the Government of Canada.

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

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

Inform municipal staff and local stakeholders about:

Learning objectives

  • the health and health equity risks presented by extreme heat;
  • the various ways that municipalities can reduce those health and health equity risks;
  • how the HealthyPlan.City tool identifies health inequities that can help inform climate change adaptation plans addressing extreme heat.

Speakers

Dr. Micheal Lee, PhD
Senior scientist 
Environmental Health Services, BCCDC

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.  

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.

To view recording, click on the image below:

This project is carried out with funding from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund
and the Government of Canada.

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

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

Dr. Jeffrey Brook, PhD
Scientific Director and
Nominated Principal Investigator

Dr. Brook is the Scientific Director at CANUE and 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).

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.

To view recording, click on the image below:

This project is carried out with funding from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund
and the Government of Canada.