Your Health and a Changing Climate: Newsletter - Volume 1

Newsletter Launched

Welcome to the first edition of the joint Climate Change and Health Office (CCHO -- visit: www.hc-sc.gc.ca) and the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN -- visit: www.c-ciarn.ca/health) Health Sector Newsletter. This newsletter is being produced to share results of ongoing and completed research on the impacts of and adaptations to a changing climate on the health and well-being of Canadians.

Climate Change Action Fund (CCAF)

Call for Letters of Interest (LOI) for impacts and adaptation research on climate change and human health and well-being was posted December 11, 2003. Deadline for submissions is February 18, 2004. Total funding available in this call -- $750,000.

> > > For more information, visit:
http://adaptation.nrcan.gc.ca/proposal_e.asp

C-CIARN Health Sector
Research Network Websites

Health Effects of Extreme Weather Events Research Network
www.iclr.org/research/research_network.htm

Air Pollution-related Health Effects Research Network
www.climateairhealth.ca

Health Effects of Water and Food-borne Contamination Research Network
www.eccho.ca/networks.asp

Vector-borne and Zoonotic Disease Research Network
www.eccho.ca/networks.asp

Population Vulnerabilities in Rural and Urban Communities Research Network
www.chuq.qc.ca/oms/cc