Canada needs a research institute on environment, health, and well-being

Canada needs a new trans-disciplinary Institute on Environments, Health and Well-being to research links between environmental change, human behaviour, societal organization and health. The institute must engender innovative, evidence-informed actions that not only reduce harm but improve the natural and built environment by addressing the drivers of environmental change.

OPINION: BY TREVOR HANCOCK, RICHARD VAN DER JAGT, CHRIS BUSE, AND MEG SEARS

Dr. Trevor Hancock is a retired professor and senior scholar at the School of public health and social policy at the University of Victoria, B.C. Dr. Richard van der Jagt (CACOR Member) is an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Chris Buse is an assistant professor, in the faculty of health sciences at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Dr. Meg Sears (CACOR Member) is a senior research associate at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and chair of Prevent Cancer Now.