Research & Policy
Recent Publications
Seasons of smoke and fire: preparing health systems for improved performance before, during, and after wildfires
August 2024
Attila J Hertelendy, PhD, ∙ Courtney Howard, MD ∙ Cecilia Sorensen, MD ∙ Jamie Ranse, PhD ∙ Ejemai Eboreime, MD PhD ∙ Sarah Henderson, PhD ∙ Jeffrey Tochkin, MA ∙ Gregory Ciottone, The Lancet Planetary Health
Advocating for a Healthy Response to Climate Change — COP28 and the Health Community
April 2024
Jeni Miller, Ph.D., Courtney Howard, M.D., M.P.P., and Lujain Alqodmani, M.D.
Seeding a planetary health education revolution: institutional sign-on challenge
November 2023
Courtney Howard ∙ Geneviève Moineau ∙ Julien Poitras ∙ Nicole Redvers ∙ Jemilah Mahmood ∙ Mohamed Eissa ∙ Lujain Al Qodmani ∙ Teddie Potter ∙ Samantha Green ∙ Carlos A Faerron Guzman
Heat illnesses in clinical practice
August 2022
Why we need a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty,
September 14, 2022
Courtney Howard, Jess Beagley, Mohamed Eissa, Ojistoh Horn, Jennifer Kuhl, Jeni Miller, Shweta Narayan, Richard Smith, Willow Thickson.,
Frequently-Requested Slides
Learning to treat the climate emergency together: social tipping interventions by the health community
These slides and images have been created as tools to help you lead the treatment of the climate emergency in your community–please just credit the paper and authors
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Macro Meso Micro Health Sector Change Story
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The Lancet Countdown on Health & Climate Change
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The Lancet Countdown Video. The 2019 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change shows that climate change is already damaging the health of the world’s children and is set to shape the wellbeing of an entire generation unless the world meets Paris Agreement targets to limit warming to well below 2˚C.
Read the 2019 report: https://hubs.ly/H0lN8md0
Published: November 14, 2019
2019— Canada EN
2019 ENGLISH CANADA : Policy Brief for Canada [PDF]
BMJ Open
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Global Climate and Health Alliance— The Limits of Viability
Report: The Limits of Livability – The emerging threat of smoke impacts on health from forest fires and climate change
“Bigger, more frequent forest and bush fires are having increased and not yet well-studied health impacts on people – including through longer and more frequent exposure to fire smoke by larger populations in distant cities – according to a report by the Global Climate and Health Alliance.”
The Lancet Planetary Health
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The Lancet Online : April 21, 2021
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A framework to guide planetary health education [PDF]
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Targeted change making for a healthy recovery [PDF]
Canada Communicable Disease Report
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Canada Communicable Disease Report. May 2, 2019.
The Lancet
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The Lancet. September 30, 2020.
CAPE : Health Recovery Plan
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Healthy Recovery Plan, by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Summer 2020.
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CAPE : Healthy Recovery Plan [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal
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CMAJ. Vol. 190, Issue 50. 17 Dec 2018
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CMAJ. Vol. 186, Issue 12. 2 Sep 2014
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CMAJ. Vol. 187, Issue 13.22 Sep 2015