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We want to hear from you! Focus group – Your questions about how municipalities work in Canada

May 12, 2025

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Express your interest by May 20 Do you work in a governmental public health organization in Canada, at the local/regional, provincial/territorial or federal level? Would you like to work more closely with municipalities? Do you feel limited by a lack of understanding...

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Directory – Understanding Public Policy in Public Health: Resources for Knowledge and Competency Development

Mar 31, 2025

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The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) has developed a directory of relevant resources for developing public policy competencies for public health professionals. The objective of this directory is to facilitate access to various resources...

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Webinar – How Institutions, Politics, Organizations, and Governance Shaped COVID-19 Responses

Jan 30, 2025

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DESCRIPTIONThis webinar was intended to share results from the research project, Upstream determinants of effective COVID-19 response: learning from comparisons across Canada’s provinces, funded by CIHR, in which the NCCHPP is a collaborator. While research on...

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Video – Could you describe one instrument or a strategy used by your organization to improve your public policy practices?

Dec 19, 2024

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In this video clip, Kari Barkhouse, Manager of the Healthy Communities, Science and System Performance, Public Health, at the Nova Scotia Health Authority, explains that one of the key tools they developed was to set clear guidelines on what health-promoting public...

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Video – What advice would you give to public health actors wishing to advance healthy public policy work?

Dec 19, 2024

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In this video clip, Kari Barkhouse, Manager of the Healthy Communities, Science and System Performance, Public Health, at the Nova Scotia Health Authority, suggests developing a common understanding within the organization to advance the promotion of healthy public...

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Infographic – How Can We Promote the Borrowing of a Public Policy Already Tested Elsewhere?

Nov 20, 2024

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When public health actors propose policy options to policy makers for addressing public health problems, they may include in their proposals policies that have proven effective in other jurisdictions – in other words, they may recommend borrowing these policies....

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