Presentations and webinars
Webinar – Strengthening Public Health Capacity Through Competency Frameworks
This webinar will highlight the NCCs’ leadership in renewing the Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada through extensive national engagement. The 2.0 Core Competencies offer a common foundation for effective, responsive, and innovative public health practice today. Join us on February 12, 2026!
Webinar – Building Healthy Public Policy: Measuring Your Progress
Explore how to assess progress in building healthy public policy (HPP). This webinar shared insights from a recent systematic review, highlighted relevant indicators, outcomes and tools, and presented a case study to show how they can be used in practice. This session helped public health practitioners identify indicators and tools to effectively monitor their HPP initiatives.
Webinar – How Institutions, Politics, Organizations, and Governance Shaped COVID-19 Responses
This webinar introduced the IPOG framework, outlining the definitions of its components – Institutions, Politics, Organizations, and Governance. We explored how these factors interacted to influence decision making during the COVID-19 crisis, using examples from qualitative data on response decisions in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Québec, and Ontario. It was held on January 30, 2025.
Webinar – Strategies for Public Health Organizations to Enhance Their Capacities to Act on Healthy Public Policies
In this webinar, we explored applicable strategies and tools public health organizations can implement to advance healthy public policies. This webinar was held on November 14, 2024.
Symposium – What Can Public Health Organizations Do to Improve Their Capacities to Act on Healthy Public Policies?
The NCCHPP offered a symposium entitled: What Can Public Health Organizations Do to Improve Their Capacities to Act on Healthy Public Policies? on April 25 at the Public Health 2024 Conference in Halifax.
New 2-Part Podcast Episode on Public Policy
Listen to this 2-part podcast episode, where our colleague Val Morrison discusses the essentials of public policy and the core competencies for public health in Canada.
Workshop – Introduction to Public Policy
This interactive workshop addressed the following questions: How public policy have been integrated into health promotion’s mission until now? What other dimensions and avenues deserve consideration? It was held on May 26, 2023.
Creating Healthy Public Policy Webinar – Navigating the Public Policy Pathway
The NCCHPP’s Florence Morestin spoke at the Creating Healthy Public Policy Webinar – Navigating the Public Policy Pathway on November 10, 2022. This webinar aimed to provide insights and tools to those who are creating or influencing public policies within their community.
This event was presented by PlanH, a collaboration between BC Healthy Communities Society and the BC Ministry of Health.
Poster Presentation- Public Policy Competencies for Public Health: A Scoping Review
In an effort to gauge the treatment of public policy competencies for public health, the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) undertook a scoping review with analysis of competency frameworks and related documents in public health over the past 15 years. The findings are briefly presented here.
Webinar – Public Policy Competencies for Public Health
This webinar began to answer the question: What do public health actors need to know about public policy? It took place on February 2, 2021.