Presentations and webinars

Webinar – Health in All Policies in times of COVID-19: What roles for the health sector moving forward?
The NCCHPP offered a webinar to explore how Health in All Policies can help address inequalities and act on the social determinants affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was held on November 10, 2020.

Webinar – Online Course on Health Impact Assessment (HIA): A Tool for Developing Healthy Public Policies
In this webinar, co-presented by the NCC for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) and the NCCHPP, Thierno Diallo presented the HIA process as a tool for promoting the adoption of healthy public policies. He introduced the NCCHPP’s online course on HIA as a tool to support HIA capacity building. Then Gabrielle Manseau spoke about her HIA experience on HIA’s challenges and benefits, as well as her experience with the NCCHPP’s online course. This webinar was held on February 13, 2020.

Seminar on the evaluation of health impact assessments (HIAs): Approaches and experiences in France, Switzerland and Québec
The NCCHPP and the Partenariats et expertises transversales (partnerships and cross-cutting expertises) unit of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) organized a seminar on the evaluation of health impact assessments (HIAs).

Webinar – How and Why Evaluate the Implementation of a Health Impact Assessment Process (HIA)?
This webinar discussed the evaluation of an HIA process. It was offered in French only.

Pan-Canadian Meeting on Health in All Policies (HiAP)
The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) organized a Pan-Canadian meeting on Health in All Policies (HiAP) in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada and the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS – Québec’s ministry of health and social services). This meeting was held on October 9, 2019, in Québec City and brought together 25 participants affiliated with federal and provincial governments, regional health authorities, Indigenous organizations, and universities from across Canada.

Webinar – Producing a Policy Brief: Why and How?
This webinar looked into policy briefs as tools for sharing knowledge with policy makers: their effectiveness, their possible forms, and how to produce them.

Symposium – Building a Collaborative Environment: Bridging Disciplines of Public Health and Planning – Public Health 2019
On May 1, 2019, Thierno Diallo from the NCCHPP contributed to a panel discussion at a symposium entitled “Building a Collaborative Environment: Bridging Disciplines of Public Health and Planning”. The symposium was held at the Public Health 2019 Conference of the Canadian Public Health Association in Ottawa from April 30 to May 2, 2019.

Symposium – International Perspectives on Promoting Population Mental Health and Wellbeing as a Critical Strategy for Sustainable Health Development
Pascale Mantoura, Scientific Advisor at the NCCHPP, participated in the Health Promotion World Conference of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) held in Rotorua, New Zealand, in April 2019. She offered a symposium on promoting population mental health in collaboration with experts Margaret M. Barry and Janet Fanslow.

Webinar – Discussing Public Health Roles in Population Mental Health and Wellness Promotion
In this webinar, co-presented by the NCCHPP and Public Health Sudbury & Districts, presenters discussed a general overview of the roles of public health in population mental health and wellness promotion and presented an example of integration of a population mental health perspective in public health practice.

Webinar – How Can We (and Why Should We) Analyze the Ethics of Paternalistic Policies in Public Health?
The purpose of this webinar was to equip public health actors to conduct a critical and nuanced ethical analysis of public health policies or population-based interventions accused or suspected of being paternalistic.