NCCEH Environmental Health Seminar

The National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health invites you to attend the upcoming Environmental Health Seminar. Webinar instructions will be included in the confirmation email. A recording of this webinar will be posted on the NCCEH website.

Seminar details

Title: Conservation as a Public Health Strategy for Climate Change Preparedness

Speaker: Craig Stephen, DVM PhD, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative

Summary:

A community’s capacity to cope with change and make incremental improvements to health may be a way interdisciplinary health teams can contribute positively to climate change preparedness, prevention, and adaptation. Most attention has been focused on social determinants of climate change vulnerability and resilience as well as on acute health outcomes such as heat exhaustion and zoonoses. This presentation will explore how nature conservation can be an essential component of building community resilience and can play a prominent role in public health planning. Wildlife health will be used to illustrate how nature contributes to multiple social and environmental determinants of health. A new perspective of health equity is offered that focusses on inter-generational and inter-species approaches.

Speaker Bio:

Craig Stephen is a veterinary epidemiologist with interest and experience in health promotion and protection at the human, animal, environment interface. He is a Professor, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan and a Clinical Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC. He is the CEO of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative which has the mission of promoting and protecting the shared health of wildlife and Canadians through leadership, partnership, investigation and action. His current academic focus is on adopting harm reduction and health promotion concepts to promote the reciprocal care of the health of people and the environment.

Please note: Citrix GoToMeeting webinar capacity is limited to 100 attendees. To accommodate this, please consider attending the webinar as part of a group. If you are unable to attend after registering, please cancel your registration prior to the event. Thank you!

These sessions are eligible for CIPHI Professional Development Hours. If you would like a letter of credit validation for CIPHI PDHs, please specify this on the registration form. Letters are sent out annually in January.