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Dr. Vanessa Brcic, MD, CCFP, is a family physician, a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and a UBC graduate student in public and population health.
Remarkably, our patients have recently been putting on a clinic on climate and community health in the most unlikely of locations-- up Burnaby Mountain.