Other Initiatives
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Identifying and supporting interventions in primary care that contribute to climate mitigation and climate resilience. Click here to learn more.
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Reducing resource use and waste in the OR and reducing the use of environmentally harmful anesthetic gases. Click here to learn more.
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Identifying opportunities to increase the visibility and impact of sustainability efforts. Click here to learn more.
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Determining how to assess and harness the environmental benefits of virtual care, learning, and work. Click here to learn more.
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Developing city-healthcare partnerships to explore opportunities for the healthcare sector to support city-led climate action. Click here to learn more.
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Identifying opportunities to leverage healthcare purchasing for sustainability. Click here to learn more
Working Group
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Working Group Lead
Imara Rolston, Assistant Professor, DLSPH; Policy Development Officer (On Parental Leave) Confronting Anti-Black Racism (CABR) Unit, City of Toronto
Working Group Members
Dale Clement, VP Clinical, St. Joseph’s Health Centre
Anna Cooper Reed, Emerging Leaders for Environmentally Sustainable Health Systems (ELESH)
Kaveh Shojania, Vice Chair, Quality & Innovation; Professor, Department of Medicine; UofT
Oliver Tsai, Director of IT, Sunnybrook Hospital
Secretariat
Fiona Miller, Founding Director, CSHS; Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation UofT
About the Community of Practice Equity in Climate Action Initiative
Ample evidence has shone light on the ways in which systemic racism shapes the structural determinants of health for Black and racialized people and contributes to and intensifies socio-economic marginalization.
In 2019, the City of Toronto officially launched its Climate Resilience Strategy, highlighting the importance of applying an equity approach to climate change interventions, which responds to the disproportionate ways that equity seeking groups will be impacted by climate change and other unexpected societal shocks. An equity and climate resilience focus for the Community of Practice aligns with the City of Toronto’s Climate Resilience Policy.
Early on, the Sustainable Health System Community of Practice recognized the need to prioritize the development of an equity framework to ground and shape the group’s overarching work. Led by Dr. Imara Rolston, the Working Group has promoted an equity and climate resilience focus to the enrich Community of Practice’s current work on climate mitigation. As part of this work, the Equity in Climate Action Working Group is developing a report on health equity as it relates to sustainable health systems. Available soon.
If you’d like to share any ideas, questions, or resources, please email cshs@utoronto.ca.