Folding Health and Health Equity into Climate Action

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CANUE/CHASE Webinar #1

April 16th 2025

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

Jeffrey Brook, Ph.D., Scientific Director and Nominated Principal Investigator
Dr. Brooks is the Scientific Director at CANUE and 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. 
 
Kim Perrotta, MHSc, CHASE Executive Director
Kim Perrotta has 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 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. 
 
Dany Doiron, Ph.D., CANUE Managing Director

Dany has been working as an environmental epidemiologist for over a decade. He is the Managing Director of CANUE, the Co-Director of the HealthPlan.City project, and 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.

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