Climate, Health & Sustainable Care 2025 Annual Symposium
Schedule
Thu Oct 30 2025 at 08:30 am to 05:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Hart House Building | Toronto, ON

About this Event
Join us for the second annual Symposium of the University of Toronto Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care
Happening on October 30, 2025, at the Hart House, University of Toronto, this full-day event (9 am - 5 pm) provides another important opportunity for our community to gather, develop connections, and learn from each other about climate and sustainability action for health and health systems.
Tickets:
Early-bird price*:
- $25 for students
- $100 for Collaborative Centre members** (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
- $125 for non-members (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
Price after September 26*:
- $50 for students
- $125 for Collaborative Centre members** (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
- $150 for non-members (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
*Note:
- Tickets include continental breakfast and lunch
- Early bird pricing ends September 26, 2025.
- A limited number of bursaries to subsidize registration cost are available for those who would otherwise be unable to attend. Please fill out this form to be considered:
**Note: If you are interested in becoming a member, please fill out this application form:
Important Dates:
- Panel submissions deadline: March 14 (decision notification: April 4)
- Presentation and poster abstract submissions open: April 7
- Presentation and poster abstract submissions deadline: May 30 (decision notification: June 27)
- Late breaking and poster submission deadline: August 29, 2025(decision notification: September 12)
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]
The Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care is a multi-faculty academic unit at the University of Toronto. Launched in November 2023, the Collaborative Centre is an initiative of four faculties: the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Ph*rm*cy.
For updates on more Collaborative Centre events, please join our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/iJvkD-/
NOTICE OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO RECORDING:
By entering the event premises, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur.
By entering the event premises, you consent to photography, audio recording, video recording and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for news, web casts, promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, or any other purpose by the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care and its affiliates and representatives. You release the Collaborative Centre, its officers and employees, and each and all persons involved from any liability connected with the taking, recording, digitizing, or publication of interviews, photographs, computer images, video and/or sound recordings.
Accessibility Information
- Elevator access to all floors of our building
- Three barrier-free entrances to the building (Tower Road on the west side, Founders' Patio on the southeast side, and a barrier-free entrance into the Arbor Room at Hart House Circle
- Drop-off pad for vehicles transporting guests with reduced mobility located at the east side of the building at 18 Queenβs Park Crescent West, adjacent to the Founders' Patio entrance.
- Accessible washrooms on the main floor outside of the Great Hall and in the Hart House Theatre lobby, as well as a Universal Washroom on the basement level outside the Arbor Room
Agenda
π: 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Keynote: Dr. Ojistoh Horn
π: 10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
Climate Distress & Participatory Approaches for Mental Health
π: 10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
Community-Engaged Research
π: 10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
More-than-Human Consciousness
π: 01:30 PM - 02:40 PM
Reducing Environmental Harms of Care
π: 01:30 PM - 02:40 PM
Care in a Changing Climate
π: 01:30 PM - 02:40 PM
Planetary Health Education
π: 03:00 PM - 04:10 PM
Climate Costs of Health AI
π: 03:00 PM - 04:10 PM
Bridging Quality Improvement & Implementation Science
π: 03:00 PM - 04:10 PM
Climate & Health Trainee Research
π: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Closing & Awards
Where is it happening?
Hart House Building, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 25.00 to CAD 150.00
