Presentations and webinars
Webinar – Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City
This webinar, co-hosted by the National Collaborating Centres for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH) and Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) was organized for the 10th anniversary of the death of Brian Sinclair, an Anishinaabe man who died after waiting for treatment at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre Emergency Room for 34 hours. This was an opportunity to discuss the story of Brian Sinclair in the context of the history of the city of Winnipeg, and the history of health care in the province of Manitoba, and to critically examine anti-Indigenous racism.
Workshop – Public Health Ethics for Public Health Practice
The Centre presented a 3-hour session introducing public health ethics at the University of Waterloo’s School of Public Health and Health Systems. In preparation for this session, we updated and reformulated much of the introductory material that we have developed over the last five years.
Course – Population Mental Health: Roles of Public Health
On June 6 2018, NCCHPP’s Pascale Manoura offered a class on the role of public health in population mental health in the mental health course MSO6080 offered in the master’s program in public health at the School of Public Health at the University of Montréal.
Presentation – The Role of Public Health in Mental Health Promotion: Informing the Development of a Mental Health Promotion Strategy
NCCHPP’s Pascale Mantoura contributed to a day-long collective reflection with Sudbury & District Health Unit on informing the development of a mental health promotion strategy.
Webinar – Practical Approaches to Wicked Problems: What Works?
This webinar, presented by the NCCHPP’s Val Morrison, sought to equip participants with new tools and approaches to better approach wicked problems in their practice.
Workshop – Exploring Multi-sector Approaches to Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination
In this in-person event, participants learned about the historical context and lived experience of those infected and affected by TB, and explored collaborative opportunities to put an end to TB in the North.
Presentation – The Ethics of Surveillance in Public Health
The Centre’s Olivier Bellefleur and Michael Keeling presented on public health ethics and surveillance at the Public Health Infrastructure Steering Committee of the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network.
Presentation – Canadian Actions to Advance Integrated Health Governance
The NCCHPP’s Louise St-Pierre offered a presentation on Canadian initiatives to advance integrated health governance in a joint expert stakeholder meeting of the Pan American Health Organization’s Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas. This meeting was held in Ottawa, on December 5, 2017.
Webinar – Public Health Ethics and Equity: Naming and Navigating Ethical Issues in Public Health Practice
In this webinar, presenter Dr. Bernie Pauly shared insights drawn from the Equity Lens in Public Health (ELPH) research project into some of the ethical issues practitioners face in addressing health inequities in public health practice, as well as some means for navigating these issues within health organizations.
Presentation – Overcoming Common Gaps in KT Approaches
The NCCHPP’s Florence Morestin delivered this presentation at the third annual Applied Public Health Chairs meeting, in Ottawa on June 15, 2017.