Folding health and health equity into Flood Management

June 11, 2025

Join our Webinar to learn:

how floods can impact health and health equity,
how municipalities can protect the most vulnerable populations in their communties while reducing the risk of floods building resilient communities, and
how the HealthyPlan.City tool can inform their work.

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 Petersen, Environmental Scientist, Vancouver Coastal Health.

Craig Brown is a Senior Scientist of Climate Change and Health at Vancouver Coastal Health, where he supports climate action and health protection in communities. Craig is also an associate faculty member at Royal Roads University, an instructor at University of Victoria, and has served as an author on national and international climate change knowledge assessments, including the IPCC Sixth Assessment report.

Dr. Dany Doiron, CANUE Managing Director.

Dany holds a PhD in Epidemiology and 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.

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