Board and Associates

Kim has a master’s degree in health science and 35 years of experience researching, analysing, promoting and implementing environmental and built environment policies and programs that promote population health, health equity, and the health of the ecosystems upon which life is dependent. She has spent 25 years working directly or indirectly for the public heath sector with organizations such as Toronto Public Health, the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA), Halton Region Health Department, the Healthy Canada by Design CLASP Initiative, the Clean Air Partnership (CAP), and CHASE. She also spent 10 years working on occupational health issues.

Kim was the Executive Director for the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) from 2015 to 2020. During her tenure, she re-invigorated the board, established regional volunteer committees, and doubled the funding and staff complement. She produced and co-authored the 240-page Climate Change Toolkit for Health Professionals and the Prescribing Active Travel for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet toolkit to support education and advocacy by CAPE members. She also led the health sector in advocating for the accelerated phase-out of coal-fired power plants nationally, a national active transportation strategy, and a Call to Action on Climate Change and Health.

Kim has authored or co-authored over 30 health-based background reports, policy reports and toolkits on issues related to climate change, air pollution, land use planning, coal plants, school buses, and active transportation including:

• Climate Change, Population Health and Health Equity: Public health strategies and five climate solutions that produce health and health equity benefits, 70p. CHASE, CPHA, OPHA, 2023.
• Climate Change Toolkit for Health Professionals, 240 pages, CAPE, 2019.
• Prescribing Active Travel for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet, With Kristie Daniel, CAPE, 2018.
• School Buses, Air Pollution & Children’s Health: Follow-up Report, CHASE, Clean Air Partnership, OPHA. 2010.
• Public Health and Land Use Planning: How Ten Public Health Units are Working to Create Healthy and Sustainable Environments. 240 pages. CHASE, CAP & OPHA, 2010.
• Air Quality and the Built Environment. Halton Region Health Department, 2007.
• Agenda for Action on Air and Health. Toronto Public Health, 2004.
• Beyond Coal: Power, Public Health & the Environment. OPHA, 2002.
• See LINKEDIN for more information.
• Contact her at kim@CHASECanada.org

Ronald Macfarlane is an advocate for environmental health and sustainable development. With 35 years of experience in Africa, Asia and Canada, he uses is critical thinking and writing skills to prepare easily understood summaries of the impacts of environmental determinants on health that serve as background information to advocate for equitable and healthy public policy.

Between 1999 and 2018 Ronald was with Toronto Public Health where he led environmental health projects addressing a wide-range of issues such as air pollution, noise, green space, urban form and climate change. He developed a health impact assessment framework and applied it to various proposals transportation and waste management proposals.

His experience also includes work at the United Nations Environment Programme, Pesticides Action Network, Consumers International and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.He has advanced international chemical policy through development of educational materials and position papers, training, provision of expert advice, program evaluation, and participation in international negotiations including the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Some of the reports that Ronald authored, co-authored or edited include:

• Health effects of extreme weather events and wildland fires – a Yukon perspective. Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health. Yukon. 2020.
• Fractures in the Bridge: Unconventional (Fracked) Natural Gas, Climate Change and Human Health, CAPE, 2020.
• Avoiding the Trap: Traffic-related Air Pollution in Toronto and Options for Reducing Exposure, Toronto Public Health, 2017.
• Green City: Why Nature Matters – An Evidence Review. With Tara Zupanic, Timothy Jason, Marianne Kingsley.Toronto Public Health 2015.
• Int’l J. of Environment Research and Public Health 15(11), 2018. Zeuli, K. et al. Climate change on the food system in Toronto.
• Diets for a cool planet: Healthy, sustainable diets for Toronto. Toronto Public Health, 2017.
• Path to healthier air: Toronto air pollution burden of illness update. Toronto Public Health. 2014.
• Active city: designing for health. Toronto Public Health , 2014.

Carol Mee has extensive experience in policy analysis and development, research and engaging/collaborating with other organizations and the community. She was a Manager with Toronto Public Health and developed health policy. Policy areas included Toronto’s Environmental Plan, the pesticide bylaw, active transportation, air quality and climate change with a focus on protecting vulnerable people from extreme heat.

Carol is a citizen member of the Durham Region Roundtable on Climate Change and is a member of the Ontario Public Health Association’s Environmental Health Working group. She has a B.Sc.N (nursing) and a M.Ed. in adult education.

She recently authored Module 6 of CAPEs Climate Change Toolkit for Health Professionals entitled “Preparing for Climate Change in Our Communities”.

See Linkedin for more information. She can be contacted at carolgmee@gmail.com.

Kristie is the Director of the Livable Cities program at HealthBridge, a role she has held since 2011. She provides technical assistance to local partners, program planning and implementation, and monitoring of local programs. Kristie’s head office is in Ottawa but she travels extensively to meet with HealthBridge’s local partners. 

Prior to joining HealthBridge, Kristie worked for over 10 years at Halton Region Public Health Department, in a variety of roles. She was responsible for coordinating a network of organizations interested in collaborating on programs supporting healthy eating, tobacco-free living and physical activity.  From 2006-10 she was a Senior Policy Analyst working with local government, planners and engineers on issues related to health and the built environment. Kristie also spent a year in Tanzania, working as a program coordinator supporting local schools and organizations to implement sport and play activities.

Kristie has a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Waterloo  (2010) and a Bachelor of Arts, in psychology, from the University of Guelph (1997). Some of the reports that Kristie has authored include:

• Prescribing Active Travel for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet, CAPE, 2018.
• Creating Walkable and Transit Supportive Communities. Halton Region Health, 2009.

See Kristie Daniel/LinkedIN for more information.

Amanda is a Program Manager at Timiskaming Health Unit in Northeastern Ontario, where she supports work in Community and School Health. She is a founding member of Climate Action Timiskaming, a local group that works to foster productive conversations around climate in the Timiskaming region. Amanda holds the Credentialed Evaluator designation, has a M.Ed focused on Adult Education, Community Development and Environmental Studies and is currently a PhD Student in the Rural Studies program at University of Guelph. She works to promote health and well-being at the local level, with particular interests in governance, health equity and climate change.