This webinar is presented by the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health
The climate is changing, and public health impacts are already affecting Canadians. Increasingly, communities are confronting challenges related to extreme heat events, forest fire smoke, vector-borne diseases, and changing precipitation patterns.
Today’s public health professionals are among those at the forefront of climate risk. Future climate data supports public health professionals as they build resilience, whether they are planning for long-term operations or communicating about impacts and risks of climate change.
This interactive workshop guides public health professionals through core climate concepts and provides a step-by-step walkthrough of Canada’s new and improved national climate data hub, ClimateData.ca. Through break-out groups, participants will gain experience accessing, downloading, and applying climate data in a public health context.
Participants will leave the workshop with a stronger ability to:
- Recognize climate variables that relate to public health
- Understand how future climate data can be visualized and interpreted using ClimateData.ca
- Create customized climate data downloads
- Apply climate data to public health contexts
# Speakers
- Elaine Barrow, Canadian Centre for Climate Services
- Ryan Smith, Canadian Centre for Climate Services