May 12, 2025: From Extreme Events to Emerging Threats: Translating Climate and Health Research into Actionable Solution
This one-day conference will examine how climate and health can be used to frame both challenges and solutions. We will explore the health impacts of both climate change disasters and emerging threats, and engage in discussions with both policy actors and community groups about the latest innovations and technologies being used to mitigate the consequences that climate change has on public health and wellbeing.
| TIME | EVENT | PRESENTERS |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration + Coffee | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Jill Baumgartner, Inaugural Director, Centre for Climate Change and Health Professor Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health and Equity, Ethics and Policy, McGill |
| 9:30-11:00 | Panel 1: From Extreme Events to Action: Safeguarding Health Against Heatwaves and Wildfires | Moderator and Panelist: Scott Weichenthal, Associate Director Centre for Climate Change and Health, McGill Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University Panelists: Sarah Henderson, Scientific Director of Environmental Health Services at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Scientific Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH) Vincent Agyapong, Professor of Psychiatry and Global Mental Health, and Head, Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia |
| 11:00-11:15 | Mini-break | |
| 11:15-12:45 | Panel 2: Long-term and emerging climate change impacts: Mental health, Aeroallergens, and Vector-Borne Diseases | Moderator: Jonathan Chevrier, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at McGill University, Associate Member of the McGill School of Environment and of the Department of Equity Ethics and Policy Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Health and Epidemiology Panelists: Katie Hayes, Climate Change and Mental Health Researcher, Senior Policy Analyst, Health Canada Eric Lavigne, Senior Epidemiologist, Air Health Science Division, Health Canada Nick Ogden, Senior Research Scientist and Director of Public Health Risk Sciences Division, Public Health Agency of Canada |
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch | |
| 13:45-15:15 | Panel 3: Advancing climate solutions with equitable health co-benefits | Moderator: Jura Augustinvicius, Associate Director Centre for Climate Change and Health, McGill Assistant Professor, Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy at the School of Population and Global Health Panelists: Marianne Hatzopoulou, Professor of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair in Transport Decarbonization and Air Quality Eric Kennedy, Associate Professor, Disaster & Emergency Management, School of Administrative Studies, York University Brenda Parlee, Professor, Bieler Chair in Nothern Climate Change and Sunstainability, McGill University |
| 15:15-15:30 | Mini-break | |
| 15:30-17:00 | Panel 4: Community voices: real-world success stories and challenges of climate change resilience |
Moderator: Erin Hetherington, Director of Health Programs, Trottier Family Foundation Sarah Munoz - Project manager, Coalition montréalaise des tables de quartier |
| 17:00-17:15 | Closing Remarks |