Urban Futures & Community Climate Resilience

About

This initiative is funded by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant to identify and explore specific opportunities for healthcare to support city-led climate action through physical infrastructure, care delivery and place-based climate governance.

As one component of this, the team has worked to explore the role of Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) in supporting community-led climate resilience, leading to a recent partnership with the West Toronto OHT in an application for a CIHR Community Based Climate Priorities Grant, Mobilizing Peer Support Structures for Community Climate Resilience.

Key activities:

  • This partnership grant is also supporting work with the Community Development Unit, Social Development, Finance & Administration at the City of Toronto to host a Community Climate Resilience Roundtable: Health, Wellbeing & Health Equity in December 2024. This roundtable will convene and connect key actors working on community climate resilience from an equity, health, and wellbeing perspective in the Greater Toronto area.
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Lead(s)

Fiona A. Miller

Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Director, Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care, Director, CASCADES University of Toronto