Date:
October 30, 2025
Location:
Hart House, University of Toronto
Register:
Our first symposium, hosted October 2024, proved to be an important opportunity for our community to gather, develop connections, and learn from each other. We are thrilled to be hosting our second annual Symposium on October 30, 2025!
Registration Now Open
Symposium tickets will include continental breakfast and lunch.
Early-bird price*:
- $25 for students
- $100 for Collaborative Centre members (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
- $125 for non-members (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
Price after September 26*:
- $50 for students
- $125 for Collaborative Centre members (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
- $150 for non-members (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
*Early-bird pricing ends September 26, 2025.
A limited number of bursaries to subsidize registration cost are available for those who would otherwise be unable to attend. Please fill out this form to be considered:
Call For Abstracts
We are currently seeking submissions for oral and poster presentations. Please submit your abstract by May 30, 2025. Notifications will be sent out by June 27, 2025.
We are currently welcoming submissions in the format of:
- Oral presentations (10-15 minutes) – prioritizing topics and themes identified below
- Poster presentations – any relevant topic
Oral Presentations
We are open to submissions for oral presentations on a wide variety of topics related to climate change and health, sustainability, planetary health, one health, political economy of health and related topics.
We particularly welcome submissions on panel topics and session themes that our program committee has prioritized through a call for panels process:
Panel Topics: The following panels are confirmed; the program committee would welcome oral submissions with clear relevance to these specific topics (click for example sub-topics):
Climate costs of AI in medicine
- Environmental benefits and costs of digital health transformations
- Best practices for sustainably integrating AI into healthcare delivery
- Equity concerns related to AI-driven healthcare
Climate crisis and mental health: Participatory approaches to hope & healing
- Participatory and community-based approaches to research and action on climate and planetary health
- Transforming climate distress into inspired and collective action
- Centering lived experience in addressing climate distress and anxiety
- Collaborating with Indigenous young adults to explore climate impacts
Commercial determinants of planetary health
- The influence of the fossil fuels industry on health and the climate crisis
- How medical industries foster unsustainable care
- Commercial influences on climate and planetary health action
Session Themes: The following themes have been prioritized for panel sessions; the program committee would welcome oral submissions with clear relevance to these themes (click for for example sub-topics):
Building climate resilient health systems
- Assessing the impact of climate related environmental exposures on human health (physical and mental)
- Reducing the impact of climate-related disasters on health and healthcare
- Improving continuity of care and operational stability in extreme conditions
More-than-human health
- The contributions of post-humanisms, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, and non-Western ontologies and epistemologies to sustainability and health
- Reciprocal relationships between human and more-than-human health (e.g., animals, plants, micro-organisms, ecosystems, rivers, mountains)
- Making the ‘more-than-human’ matter for health policy
Planetary health education
- Health professions education and planetary health and sustainable care
- Critical pedagogy for planetary health
- Professional identity formation
- Curricular reform and curricular pruning
- The health professions and changing work obligations
- Health professional competency and planetary health
Reducing the environmental harms of care
- Low carbon, high quality care
- Leveraging Quality Improvement for sustainability impact
- Innovation and scaling in sustainable care practices and policies
- Engaging stakeholders in change processes
Planetary health equity
- Indigenous planetary health
- Climate migration – implications for health and health systems
- Equitable urban climate resilience
- Deep Engagement for place-based sustainable solutions
- A title for the presentation/poster
- An abstract that does not exceed 350 words, which includes:
- Background and objectives
- Approach
- Outcomes
- Results/impact
- 2-4 high-level learning objectives
- A bio(s) for the presenter(s) to be included in the conference program
A scientific committee will review and select presentations and posters for the Symposium.