The COVID-19 pandemic has many people thinking about how our communities are designed. Do they support walking and cycling? Do they give easy access to
Category: Air pollution
Invest in Public Transit to Create Healthy, Green and Just Communities
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on public transit systems that rely heavily on the fare box for their funding. With collective fare
Excerpts from the 2020 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change
Prepared by Kim Perrotta MHSc, December 12, 2020 Urgent Action is Needed on Climate Change The fifth Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change
Stop using taxpayers’ money to fund pollution
Subsidies to the fossil fuel sector by countries around the world are undermining commitments to fight climate change.
COVID-19 Recovery can help Climate Crisis
Hamilton Spectator. June 23, 2020. Op-ed prepared by Dr. Charles Gardner, MOH for Simcoe Muskoka DHU, Ian Culbert, ED for CPHA, and Kim Perrotta, ED for
Responding to Climate Change as Public Health Professionals
Prepared for the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH) by CHASE Executive Director, Kim Perrotta, June 16, 2020 Climate Change is the Defining Issue