The Canadian Poverty, Health Equity, and Climate Change knowledge mobilization initiative was established in 2022 with funding from the McConnell Foundation. This 3-year project aims to improve Canada’s climate change mitigation and adaptation responses as they relate to impoverished individuals, families, and communities.

This initiative will establish networks of experts, policymakers and community organizations and to provide research, policy, education, and service direction based upon the best available evidence on the climate change-poverty-health nexus in Canada.

Through a co-designed process, these networks will engage in an array of activities including literature reviews, think tanks, and participatory lived experience engagement. An intersectional lens is applied with specific emphases on the experiences of women, children and youth, elderly, and populations experiencing homelessness and housing precarity. Connecting and aligning this work with Indigenous communities, racialized communities, and other key points of intersection are a priority in this effort.

Our Team

The initiative was established by Dr. Sean Kidd, Chief Psychologist and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. 

Mariya Bezgrebelna is a Research Analyst at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and a PhD candidate in Psychology at York University.

Emil Aliyev is a Research Trainee at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and a PhD student in Environmental Sustainability at the University of Ottawa.
 

Collaborators

  • Pranita Bhushan Udas, Thompson Rivers University
  • Blair Feltmate, University of Waterloo
  • Anabela Bonada, University of Waterloo
  • Joanna Petrasek MacDonald, University of Guelph
  • Robin S. Cox, Royal Roads University
  • Liette Vasseur, Brock University
  • Amber Fletcher, University of Regina
  • Julie Drolet, University of Calgary
  • Ellie Perkins, York University
  • Gregor Wolbring, University of Calgary
  • Christine Hoicka, University of Victoria
  • Glen Kenny, University of Ottawa
  • McKenzie H. Tilstra, University of Alberta
  • Onyx Sloan Morgan, Queen's University
  • Britt Wray, Stanford University
  • Bonnie Fournier, Thompson Rivers University
  • Runa Das, Royal Roads University
  • Nathalie Chalifour, University of Ottawa
  • Erin Dobbelsteyn, University of Ottawa
  • Donna Atkinson, University of Northern British Columbia
  • Margaret Greenwood, University of Northern British Columbia
  • Haorui Wu, Dalhousie University

Key Advisors

  • Diane Longboat
  • Katie Hayes
  • Peter Berry
  • Shelby Yamamoto
  • Fiona Miller
  • Shirlee Harper
  • Ashlee Cunsolo
  • Rebekka Schnitter
  • Ingrid Waldron