News + Events
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September 11, 2023UBC interdisciplinary research symposium on climate change and health
HEAL hosted an interdisciplinary symposium on climate change and health with trainee presentations and networking
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September 11, 2023Melissa McHale
Dr. Melissa McHale is an urban ecologist whose internationally recognized work mobilizes urban theory and practical science for decision-making in cities.
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September 11, 2023Trainee: Katherine White
Katherine is a third-year PhD student in the School of Population and Public Health exploring heat exposure and social isolation in older adults.
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August 18, 2023Martino Tran
Martino is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (T2) in Computational Urban Science and Planning. He is PI of the Urban Predictive Analytics Lab.
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August 18, 2023Trainee: Shuoqi Ren
Shuoqi is a second-year MSc student and an incoming Ph.D. student in the Lab for Environmental Assessment and Policy at UBC, supervised by Dr. Amanda Giang.
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July 13, 2023Melissa McHale is Acting Academic Director of the UBC Sustainability Hub
Cluster member Dr. Melissa McHale, Associate Professor of Urban Ecology and Sustainability, has been appointed as Acting Academic Director of the UBC Sustainability Hub for the period July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024. Congratulations, what a great fit! More information: https://sustain.ubc.ca…
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June 12, 2023Vancouver campus opens first student-designed, 'carbon-minimal' building in Canada
Third Space Commons, located on 6363 Biological Sciences Road in Vancouver, is one of Canada’s first institutional spaces designed to be near-zero embodied carbon. It was designed and constructed by Third Quadrant Design, an interdisciplinary team of UBC students. The team was advised by…
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March 31, 2023Awarded: GCRC Funding Renewal 2023-2024
We are very pleased to announce that the Climate Change HEAL cluster was awarded another year of funding by the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC). The awards were created jointly by the Offices of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation and the Provost & Vice-President,…
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October 18, 2022
Convening and Collaborating Award
Congratulations to Kiffer Card on being awarded a Michael Smith Health Research BC Convening and Collaborating Award, titled: Undertaking the co-design of climate distress services for young people in British Columbia
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October 7, 2022
Opportunity - Graduate Student Network Coordinator
Climate Change Health Effects, Adaptation, and Resilence (HEAL) Research Excellence Cluster Graduate Student Network Coordinator Time: 7.5 hrs per week (0.2 FTE) Compensation: $30/hour Duration: 6 months (Nov 1 2022 to April 30 2023) Closing date:…
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October 7, 2022Greenspace Symposium
On August 10, 2022 Drs. Nesbitt and Brauer held a Greenspace Symposium for trainees. Presentations: Michael Brauer: Greenspace and health across the lifecycle Katherine White: Examining greenspace metric and measurement method application in Metro Vancouver Lorien Nesbitt:…
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August 11, 2022
Workshop - July 15
On Friday July 15th, 2022 the Climate Change HEAL cluster hosted it's first ever workshop. It was held at the Robert Lee Family Boardroom in the Alumni Centre at UBC Vancouver Campus, we were very excited to meet one another in person for the first time. Eighteen members and stakeholders were at…
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August 11, 2022
Global News
Dr. Carlsten contributed to a Global News piece on August 9th, 2022: Keeping cool: The need to adapt to a new climate reality on Canada’s West Coast discussing issues of inequality and vulnerability in relationship to increased heat exposure events in Vancouver.
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August 11, 2022
Globe & Mail Opinion
Drs. Brauer, Carlsten, McHale, Nesbitt, and Rysanek authored an Opinion piece in the Globe & Mail on July 27th, 2022, Vancouver’s move to mandate mechanical air cooling in all new multifamily homes is misguided outlining the need to consider adaptive practices that support more climate…