Julia Sawatzky is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Alberta. She is also a Co-Chair of the Canadian Federation of Medical Students Health and Environment Adaptive Response Task Force for the 2022-2023 academic year, and has been working as part of this group for several years to advance planetary health education and advocacy within Canadian medical schools. She holds an MSc in Global Health and Epidemiology and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Oxford, and hopes to weave together her interests in population health, clinical medicine, and public policy in the future to contribute whole-heartedly to efforts for a healthy, sustainable, and justice-oriented future