ISPQ Webinar - Public health and adaptation to climate change
[This presentation is offered in French only]
This event is aimed at both public health professionals and their partners, is the fourth webinar in the Climate Change and Health series organized by the Institut national de santé publique du Québec.
Summary
Climate change is both a threat and an opportunity for public health. But what can Quebec's public health network concretely offer to its partners outside the health network? In this webinar, we will briefly discuss the public health argument based on climate science, the risks associated with climate change and their impacts on health, and then focus on the roles of public health actors in climate action. We will give a few examples of concrete interventions, including "success stories", that illustrate the integrated, decompartmentalized and transdisciplinary vision that is being emphasized to better accompany Quebec communities in the ongoing societal transformation.
Marie-Jo Ouimet
Marie-Jo Ouimet is a medical specialist in public health and preventive medicine in the "Territory, Impact Assessment and Climate Adaptation" Unit at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec since July 2021. She also teaches at the School of Public Health of the Université de Montréal. She worked at the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay from 2017-2021, including climate change and land use planning. In 2020-2021, she was also the Director of Public Health for the James Bay Cree Lands region. From 1997 to 2017, Dr. Ouimet practiced family medicine in a variety of settings, including overseas with Médecins Sans Frontières, Médecins du Monde and the World Health Organization. She has expertise in migrant health and holds a diploma in tropical medicine from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium.
Pierre Gosselin
Pierre Gosselin is a medical advisor to the Institut national de santé publique du Québec for climate and health issues. He coordinated the Ouranos-INSPQ joint research program on health and climate from 2004 to 2019, and directed the health component of the Quebec government's action plan on climate change from 2004 to 2017. A graduate in medicine (U. Laval) and environmental health (U. of California at Berkeley), he directed the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health at the CHU de Québec-Université Laval for 22 years, where he is a clinical professor. He remains active in research on these subjects, notably at INRS-ETE.