In this blog post, Knowledge Translation Specialist Dianne Oickle discusses what to consider for multisectoral and relational work to address early childhood health inequities in Canada.
Guest bloggers Christine Johnson (health equity lead) and Karen MacKinnon (nutritionist) discuss Nutrition Month and shifting nutrition communications.
In this blog post by NCCDH Program Manager Faith Layden and NCCDH Scientific Director Connie Clement, the authors discuss the protocols and resources used to promote racial equity in the organization’s hiring processes.
The NCCDH’s longstanding scientific director, Connie Clement, wrote a note to the NCCDH community about her upcoming retirement in March 2019.
In this blog post, Knowledge Translation Specialist Dianne Oickle discusses how inequities in early childhood have a longstanding effect on a person’s health outcomes.
This blog post is part of a series on an anti-racism initiative at the NCCDH. The post is a personal reflection authored by an NCCDH staff member and is focused on her experiences of racism as a Black woman, intersections between settler colonialism and colonialism experienced elsewhere and reflections on relationships with Indigeneity.
In this blog post by epidemiologist Brianne Wood, the author discusses the use of data to shape practice at the Thunder Bay District Health Unit and the North West Local Health Integration Network, where she works.
NCCDH Knowledge Translation Specialist Teri Emrich spoke to public health organizations in the Maritime provinces who released health inequities reports in recent years to hear how they have been making use of the data.
In this blog post, NCCDH Knowledge Translation Specialist Dianne Oickle introduces the goals of the NCCDH’s recent product package focusing on public health action on housing insecurity.
In this blog post, population health promoter Cora Janzen (Saskatchewan Health Authority) discusses how healthy built environments and health equity intersect in Saskatoon’s poverty-reduction strategy and use of lived experience in her health authority’s work
