Honoring Indigenous Perspectives on Climate-Resilient Health Care | Institute for Natural Medicine

Black communities face disproportionate exposure to the impacts of climate change and are often underrepresented in discussions and actions addressing these challenges. The African Nova Scotian Climate Justice Ambassadors Program aims to address the underrepresentation of African Nova Scotians in climate change discussions and actions, despite their heightened vulnerability to its impacts. This is the report of the project.

This report aims to determine and identify interactions between environmental, biological, genetic, socio-economic and lifestyle factors that may be driving the high cancer incidence and poor health outcomes in the African Nova Scotian community in the south end of Shelburne.