What are the major issues facing environmental health practitioners in public health? The Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors (CIPHI) explored this these at their 81st annual educational conference titled “Looking Back, Moving Forward” held in Ottawa September 13-16, 2015.
What does it mean to ‘rethink public health? The association of Public Health agencies (alPHa) in Ontario posed this question as the organizing theme of their annual conference held in June 2015.
The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health is proud to co-announce the release of the Leadership Competencies for Public Health practice in Canada.
The NCCDH hosted a panel discussion at TOPHC 2015 titled “Speaking Clearly: Language as a “changing technology” to help us advance our work on the social determinants of health and health equity” on March 27, 2015 in Toronto, ON. This session explored the power of language as well as our successes and challenges using terminology when talking about health equity.
One of the central conversations throughout the gathering “Pathways to Health Equity for Aboriginal Peoples” was about different ways of knowing and how this is critical to doing research and knowledge translation that is meaningful to the Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, Metis) of Canada.
Leadership is integral to action on the social determinants of health and health equity. This guest blog written by Erika Haney, Marty Mako and Tannisha Lambert for the alPHa-OPHA Health Equity Workgroup in Ontario describes the leadership framework used in their work. The Health Equity Workgroup (HEWG) is a joint work group of the Association
This blog describes my initial work in matching the NCCDH’s four “Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity” with concrete examples and tools. This piece of work gave me some sense of ‘where to start.’ Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity.
Since our consultant Brent Moloughney brought the four public health roles for health equity action to our attention, in 2010, we have been both promoting them as a framework (Let’s Talk Public health roles for health equity: an action framework and a 2013 CNNET webinar) and tracking how people in public health are using them.
New release! How and what we learned about equity-integrated population health status reporting. The final document in the Learning Together series from the Population Health Status Reporting Initiative is now available on our website; this may be the end of the series, but it’s also the beginning of our work to develop a deeper understanding of what it takes to move beyond health equity indicators to action.
