Health professionals are increasingly concerned about the health impacts of fossil fuel–driven climate change and pollution. Join the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care for a critical conversation with Dr. Samantha Green and Dr. Leah Temper to explore whether restricting fossil fuel advertising—similar to tobacco and other health-related ad limits—could help reduce these harms and serve as an effective public health measure.
About the speakers:
Dr. Samantha Green is a family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and at Inner City Health Associates, and the president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. She is the co-director of Temerty Medicine’s Taking Action on Planetary Health certificate program, and co-chair of the CanMEDS 2025 planetary health committee. Samantha has collaborated with CASCADES on the climate conscious inhaler prescribing primary care playbook and course, and is involved in ongoing research and advocacy to protect people living with schizophrenia from extreme heat.
Dr. Leah Temper is a an Ecological Economist and Political Ecologist specialized in knowledge co-production and environmental justice based at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and McGill University, Montreal. She holds a degree in communications science, a Masters in Economic History and a doctorate in Ecological Economics. She is the founder and co-director of the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (www.ejatlas.org), an initiative mapping ecological conflicts and spaces of resistance around the world. Her current project ACKnowl-EJ (Activist-academic Co-production of Knowledge for Environmental Justice, www.acknowlej.org) examines how transformative alternatives are born from resistance against extractivism.