We're taking action on heat hazards to protect communities.
Heat is a health issue of growing importance internationally. Health Canada will leverage Operation Heat Shield results to support developing and revising new and existing national heat health guidance and inform heat health adaptation at the household, facility, community, and provincial/territorial levels. Operation Heat Shield will create heat actions that will provide cooling strategies to protect the most vulnerable - children, the elderly, the sick, and create heat resilience innovation to safeguard those in long-term care homes, congregate housing, low-income housing, hospitals, schools and others.
Our mission
Rising temperatures is one of the biggest global health threats of the 21st century. It underscores a critical need for ambitious adaptation and advancement of protective measures to safeguard the health and safety of Canadians and Canadian workers. Operation Heat Shield Canada aims to help Canada adapt, prepare and save lives in the face of rising global temperatures. To address this challenge, Operation Heat Shield Canada draws together a team of global experts to provide research, education, and advocacy on creating, disseminating and implementing evidence-based solutions and technologies to protect health and prevent disease exacerbated by heat.
Hub of Excellence
Operation Heat Shield draws together a team of global experts to provide research, education, and advocacy on creating, disseminating and implementing evidence-based solutions to protect health and prevent diseases exacerbated by heat. The Operation Heat Shield team will transform the high-resolution data into adaptive and preventative strategies and policies, and guidelines to protect health and prevent diseases exacerbated by heat. Ultimately, the heat management and monitoring solutions that will be developed will equip the Canadian public and Canadian workers, and the global community to become resilient to heat stress.
