Professor Daniel Weinstock’s keynote address at the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health 2007 Summer Institute starts out with the claim that ‘Evidence is not proof.’ He then goes on to discuss what evidence is, clarifying our...

The NCCHPP seeks to make work from the different disciplines of the social sciences available to public health actors. This bridging role between public health and the social sciences is achieved in a variety of ways. Notably, the NCCHPP has a goal to identify the...

Policy makers are often challenged when producing public policy to consider the role of evidence, especially scientific evidence. CPRN Research Fellow Patrick Fafard (University of Ottawa) explores this challenge in Evidence and Healthy Public Policy: Insights from...