Speaking & Media | Dr. Courtney Howard, MD

Talks

Featured talks

Walrus Talk

From wildfires to wellbeing

Building the policies, narratives, and collective skills to help us move from wildfires to wellbeing.

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TEDxMontrealWomen

Healthy Planet, Healthy People

Why planetary health and human health belong in the same conversation.

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Webinar

Roadmap for Planetary Health

For Canadian medical professionals, on planetary health and sustainable healthcare education.

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Webinar

Global Climate and Health Alliance

A webinar with the alliance she chairs.

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Panel

We Don’t Have Time

A live panel on climate and health (segment ~7:42:44).

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Webinar

Wellbeing Economy Alliance

Her portion begins around minute 49.

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Film

Moving from ecoanxiety to action.

“Faster Than Light” translates ecoanxiety into action through dance, moving from worry, grief, and uncertainty toward connection, courage, and a healthy future. Directed and produced by Dr. Howard, the film was part of the WHO Film Festival.

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Related dance work

Evidence shows that we protect what we love.

“@tension [Attention]” follows three dancers embodying the anxiety, grief, healing, and community care of the 2023 Yellowknife wildfire evacuation — filmed on subarctic Chief Drygeese Territory, land warming at triple the global rate. Dr. Howard performed in the film, which premiered in the context of COP30.

Watch @tension

Writing

Featured talks

From wildfires to wellbeing

Healthy Planet, Healthy People

Roadmap for Planetary Health

Global Climate and Health Alliance

We Don’t Have Time

Wellbeing Economy Alliance

Op-eds & commentary

Planetary limits: why Canada’s next nation-building project must be grounded in reality

The awful fires in the Northwest Territories can light the way to a better, healthier future

The Great Turning

In the news

Global climate-conflict health report has clear implications for Bangladesh

Toxic wildfire smoke threatens World Cup final

Wildfire smoke kills tens of thousands of people a year. Here's how it attacks the body

Spain practices outside before the World Cup final as smoke fills the air in northern New Jersey

Why smoky skies will become more common

Climate change cutting sleep across India, Tamil Nadu records highest annual loss: Climate Central Report

India among global hotspots for climate-related sleep loss, highest in Tamil Nadu: Report

Así roba el calor tu sueño: 42 horas al año en Valencia, 41 en Málaga, 39 en Barcelona y 30 en Madrid

N.W.T. advocates react to Carney's departure from earlier climate plan

Experts warn Albertans should prepare for more smoky skies this summer

World falls far short of methane-cut targets

Doctors dance at COP30 to demand a fossil-fuel phase-out

Human-caused warming and Europe’s heat-wave deaths

Climate change may have killed 16,469 people in Europe this summer

As the world gets hotter, Americans turn to more sugar

How much do we understand about the effects of wildfire smoke?

2023 wildfires and air pollution

Wildfire smoke linked to excess deaths

Canadian hospitals switch anesthetic gas to cut emissions

Relying on virtual doctors in the ER is unsafe, N.W.T. health bodies say

The GNWT just bumped up pay for locum physicians — here’s why

The growing dangers of climate change are already visible

Experts at COP29 play a climate-change board game

Yellowknife doctor feels pain of N.W.T. wildfires while at an Ottawa conference

‘Fossil fuel addiction’ kills 1.2 million people a year

Up to 60% of wildfire evacuees might experience PTSD

Radio & podcasts

Your World Tonight: Dry Canada, wildfire dangers linger (interview ~5:00)

Climate, health and the subarctic

On wildfire smoke and health

Interested in collaborating, speaking, or building healthier futures together?