There is increasing evidence of negative implications of climate change for health and wellbeing. With a focus on at-risk populations, our knowledge mobilization initiatives aim to provide direction for research, policy, and service sectors.
Poverty is a key factor in individual and community vulnerability to environmental risks.
In the broadest sense, the information that we have gathered has validated the ‘threat multiplier’ nature of climate change with respect to people experiencing poverty, including its most extreme form – homelessness, both in Canada and globally.
The initiatives were established by Dr. Sean Kidd, Chief Psychologist and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
