Fraser Health has made planetary health an organizational priority with a goal to position Fraser Health as a leader in social and environmental responsibility. Their strategic role as an Anchor Institution include exciting opportunities to improve the environmental and socioeconomic conditions in their communities and address the environmental crises we are all facing.
In this Lunch & Learn, public health physician Dr. Trevor Hancock teaches us more about how health systems can support the creation of a sustainable well-being society and community.
About the Speaker
Dr. Trevor Hancock is a public health physician and health promotion consultant. He ‘retired’ in 2018 from his role as Professor and Senior Scholar at the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria. He is one of the founders of the (now global) Healthy Cities and Communities movement and co-founded both the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment & the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, and was the first leader of the Green Party of Canada in the 1980s. He currently convenes the Canadian Coalition for Planetary Health and a Wellbeing Society.
