The Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care is a new multi-faculty academic unit at the University of Toronto.
Launched in November 2023, the Collaborative Centre is an initiative of four faculties: the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, with an administrative home for Temerty Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.
This new unit will catalyze research, education, and practice change in clinical care, health system management, health policy, and public health to meet the transformative challenges posed by climate change and the demands of sustainability.
Announcements
- Inaugural Symposium on October 22, 2024 – Register now
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The leadership team for the Collaborative Centre is drawn from its founding faculties.
Fiona A. Miller, PhD
Fiona A. Miller, PhD, is Director and a Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Fiona is deeply engaged in efforts to deliver low carbon, sustainable and climate resilient health systems, informed by her expertise in policy, regulation, leadership, and performance management.
Ross Upshur, MA, MSc, MD
Ross Upshur, MA, MSc, MD, is Associate Director and a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and The Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Ross has worked at the intersection of global ecological change, public health, ethics and environmental justice since his time with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; Doctors without Borders) on the feasibility of environmental health research to characterize the health impacts of the destruction of the Aral Sea. He is working with the World Health Organization on a series of case studies in climate change and ethics.
Quinn Grundy, RN, PhD
Quinn Grundy, RN, PhD, is Associate Director and an Assistant Professor in the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing. Quinn directs the UofT WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Accountability, and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector, and brings a commercial determinants of health perspective to analysis of sustainable healthcare and ecological decline.
TBD
TBD, Associate Director, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy