Intersectoral action

Intersectoral action

Sustaining momentum from the COVID-19 pandemic to drive organizational change for health equity 

This Equity in Action story is distilled from an interview with Amy Stevens and Scott Fry, Advisors on the Health Equity, Partnerships and Innovation Team at Peel Region’s Health Services Department. The interview took place in January 2025, and the details should be considered within the context of that time period.   Peel Region made impactful changes to their public health approach during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing gaps in a one-size-fits-all approach, the Health Services team slowed down, engaged with members […]

COVID-19 immunization response in Peel Region: Lessons in humility, relationships and power

This Equity in Action story is distilled from an interview with Liz Estey Noad, Director of Health Equity, Partnership and Innovation (formerly Director of Transition and Transformation, Peel Public Health), and Brian Laundry, Director of Strategic Policy and Performance, Department of Health Services (formerly co-lead for Peel’s Mass Vaccination Program), Peel Region, Ontario. The original interview took place in February 2023 and its details should be considered within

Working together to thrive: Well-being and public health

Growing momentum around well-being as a shared policy goal provides opportunities for public health to leverage well-being approaches to advance population health, health equity and planetary health for current and future generations, and to share public health expertise in support of well-being initiatives.

Community organizing: A community power-building approach to advancing health equity

In this webinar, NCCDH and an organizer from Migrante Manitoba will deepen public health practitioners’ understanding of community organizing as a public health intervention by defining community organizing, describing community organizing practices as well as the benefits of public health engaging with organizers, and providing case studies (focused on precarious work and immigration) of public health both partnering with organizers and using organizing methods to advance equity.

The network role in collaborative change making and learning

We will explore: How can a network of networks contribute to collaborative change making and learning? How does this relate to creating a wellbeing society as a shared purpose? How do we bridge from local to national and back to local? How do we incorporate this into our theory of change?

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