Public Health Professionals
Creating Healthy & Sustainable Environments
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MEDIA: Hamilton Spectator, June 23, 2020. COVID-19 Recovery can Help in Climate Crisis.
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Op-Ed prepared by Dr. Charles Gardner, MOH for SMDHU, Ian Culbert, CPHA, Kim Perrotta, CHASE.
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Submission to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology re: Government's Response to COVID-19
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Prepared and Submitted by CHASE, CPHA and OPHA. June 19, 2020
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This submission is being offered on behalf of Creating Healthy and Sustainable Environments (CHASE), the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA), and the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA).
As public health professionals, we see the post-COVID-19 economic recovery plan as an opportunity to avoid the public health crisis presented by climate change. As such, we believe that it is imperative that the recovery plan support and hasten the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable and equitable economy by....To continue reading, click here.
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NCCEH BLOG: Responding to Climate Change as a Public Health Professionals
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Prepared by Kim Perrotta for the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health, June 16, 2020
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While COVID-19 will continue to demand our attention as public health professionals, we cannot ignore the looming public health crisis presented by climate change.
The 2016 Director-General of the World Health Organization described climate change as “the defining issue for the 21st century” for public health. On a global scale, climate change is already threatening the health of hundreds of millions of people each year with extreme weather events, flooding, heat waves, infectious diseases, and growing rates of under-nourishment and malnutrition. The 2018 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reports found that, in 2017:
- 157 million more people were exposed to heat waves, than in 2000;
- 62 billion more hours of labour were lost to extreme heat, than were lost in 2000;
- 712 extreme weather events occurred resulting in $326 billion (US) in economic losses – nearly a three-fold increase in costs over 2016;
- An increasing rate of insect- and animal-borne diseases in Africa; and
- A downward trend in agricultural yield in 30 countries. To continue reading, please click on this link to the NCCEH website.
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NCCEH Webinar: Responding to Climate Change as Public Health Professionals
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Presented by Kim Perrotta, Executive Director, CHASE. June 25, 2020
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COVID-19 REMINDS US THAT NATURE IS ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH
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By Ronald Macfarlane with Kim Perotta, May 29, 2020
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Access to green space is essential for the health of our communities and should be part of COVID-19 recovery plans. With some experts suggesting that physical distancing measures may need to be in place until 2022 to contain the corona virus, it is imperative that we retrofit our communities so they foster physical and mental health. To continue reading click here
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COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Climate Action
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Prepared by Ronald Macfarlane, May 8, 2020
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A Tale of Two Crises: COVID-19 and Climate Change
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Prepared by Kim Perrotta, April 8, 2020
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As a public health professional who has worked on environmental issues for over 30 years, I have watched the response of the public and our political leaders to COVID-19 with double vision. Like others, I am terrified by the harm that COVID-19 can do in a very short period, but I am also amazed, and frankly impressed, by the depth and relatively rapid response of many of our leaders in Canada. It has me wondering why our leaders have been willing to take the dramatic steps needed to contain COVID-19 when many are so unwilling to do take the steps needed to avoid climate change. To continue reading, please click here.
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