Change Needs Champions.
Whether you are a researcher, clinician, trainee, policymaker, community advocate, or donor β there is a place for you in Brain-CE’s growing national collaborative. Sign-up options, campaigns, and pathways are below.
Join Brain-CE βClimate-Resilient Brain Health for All
Discover how your unique skills and passions can contribute to climate-resilient brain health for all. Whether you are a researcher, clinician, trainee, policymaker, community advocate, or donor/funder, there is a place for you in our collaborative.
Your Contribution Pathways
Contribute to ongoing systematic reviews, community-based participatory research, publications, and data partnerships. All disciplines welcome β neuroscience, epidemiology, public health, social science, urban planning, and more.
Brain-CE’s active publication pipeline includes an analysis article on wildfire smoke and brain health equity, a systematic scoping review, and community-based studies targeting high-impact journals. Authorship credits offered to contributing fellows.
Contribute to policy briefs, white papers, and the E4D Advocacy Campaign β helping place the neurological consequences of climate change on Canada’s policy agenda at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels.
Deliver a session in Brain-CE’s Internal Lecture Series to build interdisciplinary capacity across our 40+ fellow community, or serve as a project mentor for early-career fellows in your area.
Your Contribution Pathways
Access and use Brain-CE’s clinician-facing infographics, patient handouts, and talking-point guides on wildfire smoke, heat, and stroke risk β developed through our Earth to Action (E2A) partnership with family physicians across Canada.
Contribute clinical expertise to Brain-CE’s CMAJ analysis article and future publications. Bring your patient experience and clinical lens to the evidence base being built.
Lend your voice and credentials to Brain-CE’s parliamentary advocacy campaign, conference presentations (PEACH 2026, COP31), and public health messaging that shifts climate policy to include neurological vulnerability.
Help design and validate Brain-CE’s clinical screening tools, patient resources, and resilience frameworks for climate-related psychological distress β ensuring they are clinically grounded and practically usable at the bedside.
Your Contribution Pathways
Be matched to one of Brain-CE’s 14 active projects based on your skills and interests β from systematic reviews and community-based research to social media campaigns and policy advocacy. 5β8 hours per week, with real deliverables and authorship opportunities.
Access training in Canva, animated knowledge translation, social media strategy, and public writing. Brain-CE’s core team provides ongoing support to help you turn research into content that actually reaches people.
Brain-CE’s Open Initiatives pathway welcomes fellows to propose autonomous projects β policy briefs, community events, Substack columns, data analyses, and more β with ED support and the Brain-CE platform behind you.
Brain-CE’s 10-person Core Team covers partnerships, social media, events, funding, project coordination, and strategic operations. 8β12 hours per week for students who want organizational leadership alongside research experience.
Your Contribution Pathways
Brain-CE produces policy briefs, white papers, and evidence syntheses targeting municipal, provincial, and federal decision-makers on the neurological health implications of climate events. Work with us to tailor outputs to your jurisdiction’s needs.
Brain-CE is developing a comprehensive strategy for COP31 (2026) to ensure neurological health has a dedicated Canadian voice at the UN climate table. Connect with us on joint proposals and coalition opportunities.
Work with Brain-CE to develop public-facing guidance on wildfire smoke, heat, and neurological risk β ensuring Canadians in the highest-risk communities have information they need before and during climate events.
Your Contribution Pathways
Brain-CE runs community-based participatory research (CBPR) studies with Indigenous communities, rural populations, and racialized and newcomer communities in Calgary’s hailstorm alley. Your experiences, networks, and knowledge are central to making this work meaningful and self-determined.
Work with Brain-CE’s innovation team to co-create community-facing resources that are culturally grounded, multilingual, and accessible β including infographics, WhatsApp-friendly messaging, and community dialogue guides.
Share Brain-CE’s evidence-based public articles, social campaigns, and advocacy materials with your networks. Help build the public pressure needed to put climate-neurological health equity on Canada’s policy agenda.
Your Contribution Pathways
Brain-CE is actively applying to CIHR, SSHRC, and private foundation portals. If your organization funds health equity, climate health, or community-based research, we would welcome a conversation about aligning our work with your funding priorities.
Co-sponsor Brain-CE’s Calgary Climate Week hybrid event (June 2026), PEACH Conference workshop, or public awareness campaigns. Sponsorships include co-branding, speaking opportunities, and direct reach to our national network.
Provide legal services, technology, design, research infrastructure, or communications support. In-kind contributions are foundational to a volunteer-driven organization growing at this pace.
Each Role Contributes Across These Interconnected Pathways
Find where your skills and passions connect. Every project, campaign, and publication feeds into all four pillars simultaneously.
Generate Evidence
We study how climate events β heat, wildfire smoke, flooding, pollution β affect stroke, dementia, migraines, MS, Parkinson’s, and mental health, with a focus on equity-denied communities across Canada and globally.
- Wildfire smoke & brain health analysis article
- Community-based research with Indigenous, rural, newcomer, racialized, and youth communities
Raise Awareness
We translate evidence into formats that clinicians can use at the bedside, policymakers can act on, and the public can understand. No more research sitting in journals while communities go uninformed.
- Public articles β The Conversation Canada, Substack
- Earth to Action clinical infographics & physician tools
- Calgary Climate Week hybrid event (June 2026)
Drive Systemic Change
We advocate for brain health equity to be embedded in Canada’s climate and health policies β at every level of government, and on the international stage at COP31.
- E4D Advocacy Campaign Suggestions β parliamentary letters & petitions
- COP31 involvement strategy (NGO green zone + blue zone)
- School air quality policy brief for Alberta Education & Health
- International Neuro Climate Working Group partnership
Foster Innovation
Led by Dr. Christine Gibson, this pillar asks: what do we want to build from the embers? We co-create community-informed, preventative solutions that shift care from reactive treatment to proactive prevention.
- Children’s climate-health storybook for early childhood settings
- Youth climate mental health toolkit for adolescents
- Community co-design events with racialized newcomer communities
- Clinical learning modules for CCFP planetary health certificate
This Is Not Just a Line on Your CV
We are committed to ensuring Brain-CE is a genuinely rewarding experience for every person who joins.
Mentorship & Expert Access
Direct access to neurologists, physicians, researchers, and policy experts through the Internal Lecture Series, fellow meetings, and project-specific mentorship from board directors.
Lectures Β· 1:1s Β· DirectorsAuthorship & Recognition
Eligible fellows receive co-authorship on peer-reviewed publications, named recognition in all public-facing reports and infographics, and formal reference letters.
Publications Β· Letters Β· CreditsSkills & Training
Training in Canva animated knowledge translation, evidence synthesis, community research ethics, science communication, and policy advocacy. Access to the Brain-CE branding kit and Canva Team licence.
KT Β· Canva Β· MethodsNational Network
Join a national community of 40+ fellows and board members across 10+ Canadian and international institutions spanning neurology, public health, global health, urban planning, and social science.
Cross-Canada Β· InterdisciplinaryReal-World Impact
From publications to parliamentary letters, from community surveys to COP31 strategy documents β Brain-CE fellows produce outputs that advance real change in the world.
Policy Β· Media Β· PublicationsCreative Freedom
Brain-CE actively encourages fellows to propose new ideas and lead Open Initiatives. Your ideas are heard, considered, and supported when they align with our mission.
Open Initiatives Β· AutonomyFind Your Role Within Brain-CE
There is no single “type” of Brain-CE fellow. Our tracks welcome diverse skill sets and time commitments, with clarity on expectations at every level.
Core Team
A 10-person operational backbone. Roles include project coordination, social media, events logistics, partnerships outreach, funding research, and strategic operations. Typically 8β12 hours per week.
Project Fellow
Matched to one of Brain-CE’s 14 active projects. Lead specific deliverables (literature reviews, interview guides, infographics, manuscripts) within a team. Typically 5β8 hours per week.
Open Initiative Lead
Propose and lead your own autonomous initiative β a blog series, policy brief, community event, or data analysis β aligned with Brain-CE’s four pillars. Flexible time commitment.
Expert Advisor
Contribute expertise as mentor, manuscript co-author, external reviewer, or lecturer. No ongoing operational commitment required β engage on specific deliverables where your expertise is needed.
“Brain-CE went from a single article to a national organization with 40+ fellows and 14 active projects in less than one year β because the moment you name a gap that everyone has been quietly noticing, people are ready to fill it together. Come fill it with us.” β Muse Laroyia, Co-Lead & Executive Director, Brain-CE
Join the Brain Climate Equity Collaborative
A national network of students, clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and advocates protecting brain and mental health from climate threats. This short survey collects your contact details and the ways you’d like to get involved. Your responses are confidential and stored on the University of Calgary’s secure Qualtrics server.
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Questions Before You Apply?
Reach out to Muse and Daniela directly, or book a meeting to talk through how you’d like to get involved. There are no wrong questions and no wrong starting points.