This year’s conference will feature over 60 posters exploring topics related to climate change and health. Posters will be available for all-day viewing and have a dedicated session where poster presenters will be available to discuss their work with attendees.
Poster Presenters
| Name | Poster Title |
|---|---|
| Abisha Arulselvan, School of Kinesiology & Health Science, York University | Inviting Students to Learn in Relationship with Land: Using Land-based Learning and Planetary Determinants of Health to Re-design Health Science Education |
| Aisha Siddika, PhD (c), Department of Health, Aging & Society, McMaster University | Layered, Relational Vulnerability in Coastal Khulna’s Water Crises: A Conceptual Synthesis Towards a Politicized Climate-Development-Health Nexus |
| Alana Taylor, PhD (c), Texas Woman’s University | Teaching Through Heat: Educators’ Experiences of Adapting to a Changing Climate in Texas Schools |
| Aleena Ahmad, MD Program, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto | Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Inpatient Bronchiolitis Care: A Life Cycle Assessment |
| Allison Slater, PharmD; Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo | Mobilizing and Advancing Pharmacy Leadership in Emergencies (MAPLE): A Tabletop Simulation Workshop |
| Amira Khan, Senior Research Associate, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health | Promoting Interventions for Climate Change to Upscale Resilience (PICCTURE): a cluster randomized controlled trial in Pakistan |
| Amjad Alghamyan, BSc, MS3 Student, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto | Greener and Cheaper: A Systematic Review of Implemented Sustainability Interventions in Orthopaedic Care |
| Amy Fernando, BSc, MSc Student, Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto | Evaluating Birth Outcomes Associated with Prenatal Exposure to an Acute Wildfire Event |
| Andrée-Anne, MSc (c), Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) | First Look at Health Burden of Cold Temperatures on Health Outcomes in Montreal, Canada |
| Anna Tyker, MD, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | Towards Sustainable Bronchoscopy: A Waste Reduction Initiative |
| Annika Zworth, MSc (c), Resource & Environmental Management, Dalhousie University | Preparing Climate-Ready Health Care Leaders: Launching a Global Working Group for Health Care Management Education |
| Anojini Ravichandran, MSc, Research Associate, School of Occupational & Public Health; Director, CHANGE Research Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University | How Does Digital Literacy Affect Climate Change Preparedness and Response? A Scoping Review |
| Anushka Ataullahjan, School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University | Beyond the Floods in Pakistan: How Gender Norms Shaped Women’s Roles and Resilience |
| Braden Foster, Bachelor of Environmental Studies Student, University of Waterloo; Co-op Student, SickKids | A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Single-Use Bag Utilization in Preoperative Settings through Communicative and Process Interventions |
| Carla Santini, HBSc, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto | Older Adults and Climate Change: A Scoping Review |
| Caroline Middleton, PhD (c), Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto | Developing and Validating Environmental Impact Grades for Foods in Canada |
| Cecil Chikezie, PhD (c), Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto | Implementing Sustainability in Healthcare: A Strategic Prioritization Framework for North York General Hospital |
| Daniel Rainham, PhD, Professor, Health Promotion, Dalhousie University; Affiliate Scientist, Nova Scotia Health | Dishing up Sustainability: A Multi-Site Assessment of Farm-to-Fork Global Warming Impacts from Inpatient Food Services in Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Daria Comsa, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto; Magna Regional Cancer Centre, Southlake Health | A Toolkit to Support Sustainability Education and Action in Radiation Medicine |
| Desmond van den Berg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Toronto | Contamination Management of Standard and Antimicrobial Anesthesia Circuits for Extended, Multiple-Patient Use |
| Dorsa Nouri Parto, PGY3 Psychiatry Trainee, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto | “A Valid Mixture of Anxiety, Despair, Rage, Grief”: Ontario Clinician Perspectives on Climate-related Extreme Weather Impacts and Mental Health |
| Elizabeth Alexandra Page, MD, Pediatric Anesthesiologist, The Hospital for Sick Children | Copper Recycling in the Operating Room: A Sustainability and Quality Improvement Initiative |
| Emilia Zamora Moncayo, PhD (c), Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto | Exploring Indigenous Praxis of Well-being and Experiences of Distress: A Feminist-Decolonial Ethnography in Toacaso, Ecuador |
| Emily Nhung Dang, BPH, MSc Student, University of Waterloo | Exploring Health Care Workers Experiences with Disaster Risk Management Plans in the Philippines |
| Epio Odette Bayala, MSc, PhD (c), Development Economics, Université de Sherbrooke | Coastal Erosion and Child Health: Micro-Level Evidence from Senegal |
| Erin Flanagan, MA, PhD (c), Faculty of Health, York University | A Study of Subsidized Housing Experiences as They Relate to the Climate Crisis – A Scoping Review |
| Gabrielle Di Sapia Natarelli, MS, MAPHB, IHPME, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto | Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change in Blood Systems: A Scoping Review |
| Gabrielle Wong, BA, MA Student, Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto | Tools for Building Rural, Remote, and Indigenous Community Climate Resilience |
| Giti Khalaj, PhD (c), Community Health, Université Laval | Perspectives of Providers, Organizations, and Policymakers Regarding the Delivery of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services to Climate-Affected Migrants: A Scoping Review |
| Harsimran Dogra, MSc (c), School of Occupational & Public Health, Toronto Metropolitan University | Lived Experiences of Climate Change in Rural Pune, India: Community Perspectives from the Climate Care India (CCI) Initiative |
| Heather Candon, MHM; Director of Infection Control, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | Engineering a Reduction in Glove Wastage at the Point-of-Care |
| Honoline Francis, University of Toronto | Evaluation of the Fathers of the Next Generation Parenting Program: An Indigenous-Led Program Fostering Health and Wellness through Promoting Connectedness, Cultural Continuity, and a Relationship with the Land |
| Jagriti Jha, MD, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital | Air Pollution and Cancer Incidence in Urban India: An Ecological Analysis Across 22 Cities |
| Jenna Flemming, BSc, MS2 Student, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto | The 5 I’s of Climate Change and Child Health |
| Jessica Acolin, PhD, University of Washington | Climate Distress among High School Students: Preliminary Results across Three States in the Western US |
| Kelli Pajarit Fletcher, MS, University of California; Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, University of California | Greening the Delivery of Care: Geographic and Clinical Specialization Trends in U.S. Hospitals a Scoping Review |
| Krishnu Singh, MHI (c), University of Toronto; Student, Canadian Medical Association | Understanding the Environmental Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Scoping Review |
| Kyobin Hwang, BHSc, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto | Towards Sustainable Radiology: A Scoping Review of Global Sustainability Interventions Across Radiology |
| Lahari Vuppaladhadiam, MD/MA Student, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago | The Impact of Climate Change on Health Systems in Mesoamerica: A Scoping Review |
| Lisa Vanlint, Manager, Energy & Sustainability, University Health Network | 8 Elephants: What Glove Stewardship saved from landfill at University Health Network (UHN) |
| Lola Oyefeso, MSc (c), Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto | Operationalizing Environmentally Accountable Clinical AI: Codesign Findings Across Performance, Equity, and Sustainabilit |
| Maggie Chen, MSc (c), Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Western | Making Autopsy Pathology Green: A Quality Improvement Project |
| Mahnoosh Jalilzadeh, HEATSCAPE-Africa Project, York University | Mapping Mediators and Moderators in the Relationship Between Extreme Heat Exposure and Mental Health in Low-and-Middle Income Countries: A Scoping Review |
| Mandy Lam, MD, Department of Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto | Decentralizing Central Nitrous – Experience at our Tertiary Pediatric Centre |
| Mariam Farooq, MPH MS2 Student, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Research Trainee, CAMH | Developing an Evidence-Informed Climate and Health Guidance Tool for Clinicians: Translating Systematic Review Evidence into Practice |
| Maureen Saha, MPH Student, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto | Bridging the Gap Between Health and Parks: Preliminary Results from a Scoping Review of Nature Prescribing and Focus Groups |
| Melissa Wang, MD/MPH Student, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University | The Effects of Wildfires on Acute and Chronic Pulmonary Disorders |
| Muhammad Anas Ansar, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Translational Research Program, University of Toronto | Social Support and Social Well-Being in Older Adults in the Context of Climate Change: A Scoping Review |
| Munique Therense, PhD, Amazonas State University | Sustaining Life in the Climate Crisis: Women’s Political Agency and Reproductive Justice in Brazil |
| Mya Duffy, MSc (c), Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph; Camille Jolicoeur, MSc (c), Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph | “The farm can swallow you and encompass you … and I think climate change is actually making that harder”: Investigating Well-being During a Changing Climate among Women Farmers in Canada |
| Paige O’Leary, MSc-GH, Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University | Landscape of Community Preparedness and Health Resilience of Western North Carolina to Climate Change Disasters |
| Pakeezah Saadat, Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University | Integrating Planetary Health in Health Guidelines (GRADE Guidance 46) |
| Priya Mistry, School of Kinesiology & Health Studies, Queen’s University | Climate in the Headlines: Canadian Media Narratives on Climate Change and Outdoor Activities |
| Rachel Davis, MA (c), Public Issues Anthropology, University of Guelph | Coping with the Mental Health Effects of Climate Change |
| Rhea Mukerjee, PhD (c), Mary Heersink School of Global Health & Social Medicine, McMaster University | Caregivers’ Perspectives on Environmental Pollution and Child Health in Sudbury |
| Sami El Sabri Nuffield, Department of Population Health, University of Oxford | Climatic Drivers of Post-discharge Mortality and Readmission among Children in the CHAIN Cohort |
| Sandrine Gagnon, MSc (c), Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) | Snowfall, Freezing Rain and Adverse Health Impacts: A Multi-Outcome Study in Montreal and Quebec City, Canada |
| Sarah Merghani, BSc Specialized Honours Global Health; Wellness Impact Lab, York University | From Climate Distress to Climate Engagement: Lessons from The Nest, a Student-Led Climate Emotions Initiative |
| Sayed Ibrahim, MHM, RDCS; Performance Improvement & Patient Safety Specialist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | Non-Sterile Glove Use Optimization in a Rehabilitation Setting: Measuring the Problem and Understanding the Drivers |
| Shaojie Dong, BSc, MSc Student, Health Systems Research, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto | A Machine Learning Framework for Developing an Ontario-Specific Daily PM2.5 Exposure Product |
| Stacey Butler, PhD, University of Toronto; Post-Doctoral Fellow, Unity Health Toronto | Respiratory Care in a Changing Climate: Canadian Healthcare Professionals’ Engagement in Environmental Sustainability |
| Susan Deering, MD, MPH, University of Toronto; Sunnybrook Research Institute | Extreme Heat Resilience in Individuals with Schizophrenia: Impacts and Mitigation Strategies: A Scoping Review |
| Tara Tai-Wen Chen, PhD (c), Department of Geography & Environmental Management, University of Waterloo | Living with Schizophrenia in a Changing Climate: Housing, Indoor Environmental Quality, and Health Risks |
| Vanessa Virgo, MES (c), School of the Environment, University of Toronto | Beyond Impact Evaluation: An Application of Implementation Science in Integrated Conservation-Nutrition Programs |
| Yasmeen Razvi, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto | Climate Action and Planetary Health: The Role of Professional Resistance |
| Yasmin Aboelzahab, Postdoctoral Fellow, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto | Supporting Healthcare Navigation and Safer Medication Use Through a Virtual Pharmacy Orientation for Newcomer International Students |
| Zara Zafar, Department of Health Sciences, Queen’s University | The COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change-associated Behavioural and Social Shifts and Implications on Ambient Air Pollution Exposure: An Umbrella Review |
| Zoe Garzouzi, BHSc Student, McMaster University; Research Trainee, Unity Health Toronto | A Novel Inhaler Recycling Initiative: Results from Multiple Healthcare Settings |