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.