April 2025

Heat alert and response systems in Canada:
A check-up on preparedness

The pan-Canadian HARS stocktake provides an overview of heat alert and response systems (HARS) across Canada. This review identifies key challenges such as funding shortages, staff turnover, and barriers to reaching at-risk populations, while offering recommendations to strengthen HARS through improved funding, clearer roles, enhanced data sharing and standards, and supports for cooling spaces and housing adaption.

Upcoming Webinar

From rain gardens to resilience:
Green stormwater infrastructure for healthier cities

April 30, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:00pm Pacific Time

Tugce Conger, M.URP, Ph.D.
Fraser Health Authority
Heidi Horlacher, P.Geo.,
City of Vancouver

Register free

Research Scan

Announcements

The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) Healthy Environments for Learning Day

Extreme heat in schools and child care settings
April 24th, 2025

Extreme heat harms children’s health and wellbeing and makes it harder for them to learn and thrive at school. In Canada, many schools and childcare settings are not well equipped to protect children and staff from extreme heat. Due to climate change, extreme heat events in Canada are increasing in number, severity, and length, so action to improve children’s protection from extreme heat is more urgent than ever.

CPCHE is engaging partners and collaborators through the 2025 HELD campaign to urge decision-makers to take swift action on extreme heat in schools and childcare settings across Canada.

Traffic-related air pollution:
A systematic review-based human health risk assessment of mortality

Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is the contribution of on-road vehicles to air pollution. TRAP is of particular concern in urban areas and near highways, where concentrations are the most elevated.

Health Canada has previously evaluated the association between exposure to TRAP and asthma, allergy, lung function, and selected cancer types. The objective of this risk assessment is to evaluate the association of mortality with TRAP exposure. This will inform and support programs and policies designed to mitigate exposure to, and the health impacts of, TRAP in Canada.

Webinar Recording

Using advanced surveillance tools to understand norovirus evolution, public health impacts, and to enhance outbreak response

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