Faculty & Professional Development

Supporting faculty and professional development is essential to our work as an academic hub in the emerging field of sustainability in health.

We work to support climate and health scholarship and science as a viable and rewarding academic career path. This includes providing support for faculty to integrate relevant content into curricula and support to practicing professionals to translate evidence into action.

To equip faculty and professionals with the skills needed to meet the health and health equity challenges of a changing climate, we have developed awards, targeted and continuing training opportunities, and partnerships.

Awards: We developed the Climate & Health Awards to recognize the leadership, excellence, and innovation in our community. 

Targeted programs: We develop targeted training opportunities to support faculty to integrate relevant content into curricula and to practicing professionals to translate evidence into action.

Partnerships & Networks: We work with partners to develop new experiential learning opportunities, resources, and networks.

Faculty Development

We are equipping faculty with the skills needed to meet the health and health equity challenges of a changing climate. Interested in getting involved? Contact us.

We established the Early Career Academic Excellence Award to recognize outstanding contributions of early career scientists working in climate and health at the University of Toronto.

Learn more about the 2025 winner, Dr. Sarah Elton.

With Columbia University, we created a dedicated cohort of health sciences faculty to participate and debrief in Climate Ready Classrooms program.

With the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Centre for Faculty Development, we are developing a suite of activities to provide faculty with curricular design assistance, pedagogical training, and shared teaching resources.

We have created a community of practice to mobilize and adapt global educational resources and work directly with faculty on integrating climate and health content into existing courses. Email us to join.

Professional Development

We deliver awards, programming, and resources in planetary health and sustainable care for practicing health professionals, administrators, and leaders, empowering them to integrate critical knowledge and skills about climate, environment and sustainability in health and health systems into their work.

We established the Best in TAHSN Awards: Impact & Innovation in Policy & Practice for practicing professionals in the Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network to recognize outstanding contributions of leadership, excellence, and innovation.

Learn more about the 2025 award categories and winners.

With CASCADES and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, we offer “Introduction to Sustainable Health Systems ,” an accredited, self-paced online course available at no cost to anyone in the Canadian health system. Hosted on the Royal College’s learning platform, the course introduces learners to the relationship between climate change, health, and health systems; familiarizes them with the concepts of resilient and sustainable health systems; and supports them to consider how they might incorporate climate action into their work.

In collaboration with Temerty Medicine Continuing Professional Development, we offer a digital certificate, “Taking Action on Planetary Health ”. Over the course of four synchronous interactive online modules and three asynchronous modules with guided group work, participants explore key planetary health concepts and frameworks, collaborate with a diverse group of learners, and apply planetary health principles to novel and practical planetary health interventions.

The Planetary Health & Sustainable Care ECHO, offered in collaboration with CASCADES, provides a collaborative space for people in the Canadian healthcare sector to discuss, troubleshoot, and celebrate efforts to provide climate resilient and responsible care across settings and specialties.