We convene a leadership table with representatives from all 14 TAHSN hospitals, from the four collaborating health science faculties, and from critical external partners, co-chaired by a TAHSN CEO and a health science faculty Dean. The leadership table oversees the efforts of working groups and initiatives and supports regular reporting to the TAHSN Committee of CEOs.
The Community of Practice was established in the fall of 2020 by the Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN) and the University of Toronto’s Council of Health Sciences (CHS) to collaboratively address the challenge of climate change in the health sector.
In recognition of the fact that the very sector tasked with maintaining and improving health contributes significantly to environmental changes that threaten it, the Community of Practice’s goal is to support a shift toward environmentally sustainable healthcare, which is defined as care that aims to “improve, maintain or restore health, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment and leveraging opportunities to restore and improve it, to the benefit of the health and well-being of current and future generations.” (WHO, 2017)
Collectively embracing sustainability as a healthcare community means that we work together to provide evidence, ideas, leadership and advocacy to develop a climate resilient, low carbon and sustainable health system through action, research and education.
Executive Co-Sponsors
- Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown, Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
- Ronald Cohn, President & Chief Executive Officer of Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Secretariat, Centre for Sustainable Health Systems (CSHS)
- Fiona Miller, Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Director, Centre for Sustainable Health Systems
- Geoffrey Anderson, Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Health Systems
- Nicole Simms, Managing Director, Centre for Sustainable Health Systems
- Helen Valkanas, Research Officer, Centre for Sustainable Health Systems
Senior Leadership Table
- Dale Clement, VP Clinical, St Josephs, Unity Health
- Danielle Toccalino, Emerging Leaders for Environmentally Sustainable Health Systems (ELESH)
- Lisa Dolovich, Dean, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
- Karli Farrow, President and CEO, Trillium Health Partners
- Peter Goldthorpe, VP Transformation, SickKids
- Brian Hodges, EVP Education & Chief Medical Officer, University Health Network
- Linda Johnston, Dean, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
- Robin McLeod, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
- Imara Rolston, Assistant Professor, DLSPH; Policy Development Officer, City of Toronto
- Ron Saporta, Chief Operating Officer, University of Toronto
- Kaveh Shojania, Vice-Chair, Quality & Innovation, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Christine Soong, Division Head, Hospital Medicine, Sinai Health
- Oliver Tsai, Director of Information Technology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Kimberly Wintemute, Family Physician, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
- Rudy Dahdal, Vice President, Planning, Redevelopment and Clinical Support, North York General Hospital
- Mike Heenan, Executive VP, Clinical Support, Post-Acute Care and Redevelopment, Humber River Hospital
