Jade Yehia Jade Yehia is an Environmental Health Knowledge Translation Scientist with the BC Centre for Disease Control, where she supports knowledge exchange on climate change and health. She is also an Associate Faculty member in the School of Environment & Sustainability at Royal Roads University. A health geographer by training, she spent nearly a decade leading Island Health’s Healthy Built Environment program and has served as Climate Change and Health Lead with regional health authorities and the BC Ministry of Health. Jade has called the South Island home since her teens and believes many of our most powerful responses to climate change are already rooted in land, place, and community. She is a mum, a nature enthusiast, and companion to one very energetic dog.
Climate, Health, and Place: Individual Stories to Collective Action
Climate change can feel overwhelming in scale as a global problem. But the most transformative moments in this work happen locally, when you reflect deeply in a specific place with your neighbours and co-create something new, or remember something very old. In this workshop, you will create a map of values in a shared landscape, making visible what some maps may leave out: Indigenous relationships, the connections between environment and health, lived experiences of climate change, and shared community strengths. Then, through a shared process of storytelling, collective reflection, and creative mapping, you will work together to explore how our observations can connect to broader understandings of climate, health, resilience, and place. As local stories begin to intersect from the land, we will consider how this knowledge can shape engagement, planning, policy, and action at larger scales. You will leave with a replicable process you can bring into your own teaching, professional practice, or community planning work.