Pierre Gosselin currently works mostly at the Quebec Public Health Institute (INSPQ) on climate change issues. He coordinated the joint Ouranos-INSPQ research program in climate change and health from 2004 to 2019. He was also in charge of the Health component of the Quebec Action Plan on Climate Change (2007-2017) and remains involved in several projects. He is clinical professor in preventive medicine at Université Laval and associate at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique. Gosselin was trained as a physician (Laval U.) and in environmental health (U. of California at Berkeley) and has been director for 22 years of the WHO Collaborating Center on environmental and occupational health at the Québec City University Hospital, leading projects worldwide.
Excess Mortality in Istanbul during Extreme Heat Waves between 2013 and 2017
Senior Scholar and Climate Change Cluster Coordinator Ümit Şahin, Günay Can, Ümit Şahin, Uğurcan Sayılı, Marjolaine Dubé, Beril Kara, Hazal Cansu Acar, Barış İnan, Özden Aksu Sayman, Germain Lebel, Ray Bustinza, Hüseyin Küçükali, Umur Güven ve Pierre Gosselin's article "Excess Mortality in Istanbul during Extreme Heat Waves between 2013 and 2017" was published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on November 2019.
Click here for the document.
“Nasıl bir Dünya? Nasıl bir Türkiye?” with Pierre Gosselin and Ümit Şahin
Pierre Gosselin and Ümit Şahin participated in the 36th episode titled "Fighting Heat Waves in Hospitals and Society" of the program “Nasıl bir Dünya? Nasıl bir Türkiye?”, prepared in collaboration with the Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) and Medyascope.
Battling Heatwaves in Hospitals and the Community, Now and in the Future
The Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative organized the webinar “Battling Heatwaves in Hospitals and the Community, Now and in the Future” with the participation of Mercator-IPC Visiting Senior Fellow Pierre Gosselin and Climate Change Cluster Coordinator Ümit Şahin on July 27, 2020.
Please click here for the event.
