François Gagnon was invited by the Fondation Lucie et André Chagnon to present a workshop on coalitions of actors. This presentation took place during a meeting of various Québec stakeholders to discuss educational achievement as a poverty prevention mechanism. The...

Public health professionals and community stakeholders working to influence the development of healthy public policies have identified the need to better understand the merit, worth, and utility of these policies. Therefore, Public Health Ontario and the NCCHPP have...

The NCCHPP’s François Benoit offered this presentation for the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Centre for Public Health Infrastructure, in Ottawa on January 21, 2015. This presentation illustrates how two public policy models, the stages model and the...

What are the main questions policy makers ask when making decisions about a proposed healthy public policy? On what topics do we need evidence? Public health actors may be called upon to work on public policies and therefore interact with policy makers at different...