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Kim has a master’s degree in health science and 40 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 for 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). Kim has been the Executive Director of CHASE since 2020.

During her tenure as Executive Director for the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) (2015-2022), she co-authored and produced health-based reports on climate change, fracking, active travel, and pesticides to support education and advocacy by CAPE’s volunteer 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 or policy reports 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.
• 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.
• School Buses, Air Pollution & Children’s Health: Follow-up Report, CHASE, Clean Air Partnership, 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.
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• Contact her at kim@CHASECanada.org

Amanda has worked in local public health since 2006; she now works as Manager of Community Health at Northeastern Public Health in Northern Ontario. Amanda has held positions at the Clean Air Partnership, the Royal Ontario Museum, and done private consulting, always with a lens of fostering community engagement in planetary and human health and wellbeing. She is also 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, and a PhD in Rural Studies.

In her doctoral research, Amanda explored experiences in rural Northern Ontario of the COVID-19 pandemic as a pathway to identifying opportunities to support rural places in reducing negative impacts of future disruptions, including those related to climate change, producing this Report and Policy Brief—both titled “Lessons from Northern Ontario: Rural-proofing emergency management in Canada.”  

For more information, see Amanda Mongeon/LinkedIn.

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.

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 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.

Gurleen Arora is a Master of Public Health (MPH) student at the University of Guelph currently completing her practicum with CANUE and CHASE. Gurleen’s work focuses on municipal climate adaptation planning, where she has developed case study vignettes highlighting built environment interventions that integrate health equity and geospatial analysis.

Her interest in public health began during her undergraduate studies in Health Sciences, where both academic training and volunteer experiences exposed her to the health disparities experienced by marginalized populations. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences with a specialization in Biology from Western University.

In addition to her academic training, Gurleen volunteers with several organizations that provide direct engagement with diverse communities, reinforcing her commitment to advancing health equity. Her professional interests lie at the intersection of equity-focused planning, quantitative data analysis, and evidence-informed policy development.