VCH Public Health works to prevent illness, by reducing the extent to which environmental and social factors negatively impact the health of our communities.
VCH's Healthy Environments team focuses on preventing illness and promoting health and well-being in our communities. We work to improve health outcomes linked to physical and environmental factors such as climate change, noise and air pollution, community design, and more. We do so through community partnerships, research, policy input and review, and education.
Regional, municipal and non-governmental partners on plans, projects, and policy proposals, incorporating lenses of environmental determinants of health and equity.
Email the team at healthy.environments@vch.ca.