Come and learn about transformative power of nature for health and healing park prescriptions and the AQHI
Date: Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Time: 7:30 p.m.
With special guest Dr. Melissa Lem who is a Vancouver & rural family physician, Director of PaRa, President, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment an leader in field of nature health.
Access to safe water and sanitation for all is essential to life and a matter of environmental and social justice. Unfortunately, there are over 100 drinking water advisories in First Nations across Canada and no national strategy to address urgent water issues.
The COVID-19 pandemic compounds harms of historically marginalized communities. Our collective recovery must build stronger, healthier communities, including healthy environmental public policy that challenges structural inequities, including environmental racism.
We need our governments to take immediate, future-minded action now to ensure the foundational conditions for human health and wellbeing are sustained for generations to come.