Health Talks: Sarah Henderson - Climate Emergency: Social Connection is Going to Save Us

Sarah Henderson
Scientific Director, Environmental Health Services, BC Centre for Disease Control
Scientific Director, National Collaboration Centre for Environmental Health

Sarah Henderson is the Scientific Director of Environmental Health Services at the BC Centre for Disease Control and Scientific Director of the National Collaboration Centre for Environmental Health.

She oversees a broad program of applied research, surveillance and knowledge translation to support evidence-based environmental health policy and practice in BC and across Canada.

Sarah loves big data, public health and helping stakeholders get the answers they need. She has been studying the health effects of climate catastrophes for more than 20 years, which makes for some awkward conversations at parties.

Health Talks is our annual evening event at Quality Forum where awesome speakers answer the question: What are your hopes for health care? But Health Talks’ speakers don’t use presentations full of bullet points. They use the PechaKucha 20×20 format, where each presentation contains 20 photos and each photo is displayed for exactly 20 seconds before automatically advancing to the next one.