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 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, Ph.D.
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.
Dr. 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.