Your Health and a Changing Climate: Newsletter - Volume 1

About Us

The CCHO was established in 1998 to address the expected impacts of climate change on health and well-being by working with partners, both inside and outside of the Government, in support of research to better understand the health effects of climate change, to raise awareness of these effects and to begin integrating climate change considerations into public health policies in Canada.

The Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN) facilitates the generation of new climate change knowledge by bringing researchers together with decision-makers from industry, governments, and non-government organizations to improve our knowledge of Canada's vulnerabilities to climate change.

Since 2001, CCHO has been hosting the health sector of C-CIARN. In order to reach out to its various research communities, CCHO established several networks of researchers, stakeholders, and policy makers to promote and support research, to exchange information and to provide advice on the health issues expected to be impacted by climate change. These issues include air pollution, water-borne and food-borne contamination, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, extreme weather events, population vulnerabilities and the socio-economic impacts on community health and well-being.