Massey is Missing COP26 – Climate Change and Global Health Threats (online only)
We will bring together a well-known Canadian climate change and health expert Dr. Courtney Howard and two Massey College Junior Fellows Andrew Terence Lam and Jean-Paul R. Soucy, moderated by Diplomat in Residence Amb. Rosemary McCarney, to discuss the interplay between climate change and human health. We will discuss the role of health care workers and their role in mitigation and advocacy, what are their realistic aspirations for COP26, what must change in human behaviour to mitigate and adapt to climate change to protect our health outcomes? What about the “medical footprint”?
Please join us at noon on September 23rd as we kick off this Fall’s line up of issues as Massey is Missing COP26 continues.
This event will be offered online only.
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Speakers
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Rosemary McCarneySenior Fellow and Diplomat in Residence at Massey CollegeRosemary McCarney is an award-winning humanitarian, business leader, author, recognized public speaker and media commentator. Her extensive career in law, business, academia, the not-for-profit sector, and diplomacy has taken her to over 100 countries. She was the first Executive Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute, has practiced law in the US and Canada, and has held executive positions in the technology sector and in civil society. In 2005, she became the CEO of Plan Canada International, one of the oldest and largest charities in Canada.
In 2015, she was appointed Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. On her return to Canada, she joined Trinity College as the inaugural Pearson Sabia Visiting Scholar in International Relations and was appointed the Graham Massey Senior Distinguished Fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy. Rosemary is the James Coutts Distinguished Visitor at Trinity College and lectures in the International Relations Faculty in Multilateral Diplomacy and Global Governance and Global Health Security. She is a Senior Fellow of the Graham Centre for Contemporary History as well as the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.
She is a passionate multilateralist, a committed advocate for human rights and human rights defenders and for the power of diplomacy, consensus building and interdisciplinary perspectives to address the challenges of our time. Her award-winning series of children’s books, intended to make social justice and human rights issues accessible to young readers, have been translated and published around the world.
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Dr. Courtney HowardEmergency Physician and Clinical Associate Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine
Dr Courtney Howard is an Emergency Physician in Yellowknife, in Canada’s subarctic, and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.
Working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières on a children’s malnutrition project in Djibouti, she learned that one of the devastating forecasts of climate change is malnutrition. After returning to Canada’s North she heard her mostly Indigenous patients relate how the rapidly-changing landscape was wreaking havoc on their wellbeing. She is now a globally-recognized expert on the impacts of climate change on health, and in the broader emerging field of planetary health. Her work has spurred an increasing recognition of the need for systemic and political action on climate and health, for the health of our country, our planet, or economy, ourselves, and our children.
Dr Howard’s partner is pediatrician Darcy Scott, and you can often find them exploring the shores and waters of Great Slave Lake near their home in Chief Drygeese Territory, the traditional homeland of the Yellowknives Dene and the traditional lands of the North Slave Metis; with their two mischievous, fierce, and graceful daughters, Elodie and Vivi.
Visit her website for the full bio.
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Jean-Paul R. SoucyJunior Fellow
Jean-Paul R. Soucy is a Vanier Scholar and PhD candidate studying infectious disease epidemiology in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. His work is focused on infectious disease surveillance using emerging data sources. He is a co-founder of the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group, which curates a centralized repository of COVID-19 data in Canada. Jean-Paul is also a founding editor of the University of Toronto Journal of Public Health and currently serves as the journal’s epidemiology editor. His website can be found at jprs.me and his Data Gripes blog at data.gripe.
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Andrew Terrance LamJunior Fellow, Resident Physician and Epidemiologist
Andrew Terence Lam is a third-year Junior Fellow and first year resident physician in the specialty of Public Health and Preventive Medicine with an interest in health equity and health systems innovation. He is a Clarkson Laureate and holds a Master of Public Health and Doctor of Medicine from UofT and has been an epidemiologist for all levels of Canadian government. He currently consults in the private sector and engages in HealthTech solutions development. Andrew previously chaired the provincial Better Outcomes Registry & Network working group. He was the past president for both UofT family medicine and public health medical student interest groups and national representative to the Canadian Federation of Medical Students and the College of Family Physicians of Canada. When not getting lost biking across the Northwest Territories, he can be found running around Queens Park, or fencing from a socially safe distance.
