Thank you so much for the question.
This will give me an opportunity to speak a bit about what the organization I work for, which as I said earlier is the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, is doing. CAPE is a physician-led organization with the mission of bettering human health by protecting the planet. Our board is mostly physicians, and we have regional committees across the lands called Canada that are led predominantly by physicians but also other health care professionals.
Much of our work is about educating and empowering physicians and other health professionals to know and understand what the health impacts are, in particular for vulnerable people and racialized and indigenous people. A lot of that knowledge actually comes from the physicians within CAPE, who recognize these problems from working with and treating their patients and want to do something about it.
Building in that empowerment piece, CAPE has been advocating, through medical schools, for training and research that continues to address some of these issues. It's designing research studies and training medical students and other health care providers on these intersectional problems of racism and the social determinants of health, as they're known.
There is an appetite and a very real need on the part of the health care community and health professionals to address these problems. I think we're seeing that happen more and more, particularly as young trainees are living in this world where we're seeing evidence of these problems.