Courtney Howard

Dr Courtney Howard is a Yellowknife Emergency Physician, President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, and the first author on the 2017-2019 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Briefings for Canadian Policymakers, and is the international policy coordinator for CODA Earth.

System Change is Needed to Combat Climate Change

By: Courtney Howard

On: January 23, 2020

In: Featured, Physician Wellness

Increasing awareness of the urgency of climate change, led by the youth climate movement, and growing felt impacts of the health effects of climate change, including the devastating bushfires in Australia, are fuelling a global increase in interest in the concepts of “eco-anxiety” and “ecological grief.” How to cope withRead More →