Description
HiAP approaches emphasize integrating health considerations into policy making across various sectors, making strong public policy competencies essential for teams looking to implement, or currently implementing, HiAP. This requires a solid understanding of how public policies are designed, enacted, and evaluated to effectively address the determinants of health that influence health outcomes. Public policy competencies enable public health actors to engage beyond the health sector, ensuring that health outcomes and their co-benefits are considered in broader policy areas.
Developed by the CNHiAP working group for competencies and tools for public policy, this workshop aimed to enhance participants’ understanding of key public policy competencies for healthy public policy (HPP) necessary to implement HiAP initiatives and to discuss, through real-life case studies from public health authorities, how these competencies are operationalized within teams. This workshop was held on February, 6, 2025.
Specific objectives were:
- Explore key public policy competencies essential for advancing healthy public policies within a HiAP framework.
- Learn how public health teams have applied these competencies to support HiAP in practice.
- Identify specific competencies essential for implementing HiAP approaches, illustrated through real-life case studies.
- Promote reflection on how public policy competencies can be mobilized for HiAP, helping participants critically assess their current practices and challenges.
Audience
This workshop was open only to CNHiAP members or their delegates.
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Agenda
Workshop Agenda
Workshop Summary
Summary of key discussion points
CNHiAP working group for competencies and tools for public policy
PPT Presentations
Introduction – Public Policy Competencies for Public Health
Val Morrison, Scientific Advisor
National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy
and
Carole Clavier
Professor, department of political science
Université du Québec à Montréal
Collaboratively Drawing Elephants to Build Healthy Communities
Inge Roosendaal, Healthy Communities Senior Planner, Ottawa Public Health
Gillian Connelly, Program Manager, Ottawa Public Health
Dominant Narratives and Healthy Policy (PPT Coming soon)
Reka Gustafson
Vice-President and Chief Medical Health Officer
Island Health
Reflecting on System Competencies to Influence Healthy Public Policy
Community Water Fluoridation (CWF) Case Study
Kari Barkhouse, Manager of Healthy Communities
Science and System Performance Unit
Nova Scotia Health
Content
The workshop will introduce the categories outlined in the NCCHPP’s publication Public Policy Competencies for Public Health: A Review of the Literature (Kamwa Ngne & Morrison, 2021) as a framework for discussion, and will discuss their relevance for advancing HiAP implementation. Discussion and reflection on these competencies will be anchored in real-world public health practice through the presentation of three case studies from Ottawa Public Health (Ontario), Nova Scotia Health (Nova Scotia), and Island Health (British Columbia). Participants will engage in case study analysis and interactive group discussions, fostering a deeper understanding of how public policy competencies can be effectively applied in practical settings to support the implementation of HiAP initiatives.
Source: Morrison, V. & Kamwa Ngne, A. (2022). Poster Presentation. Public Policy Competencies for Public Health: A Scoping Review. https://ccnpps-ncchpp.ca/poster-presentation-public-policy-competencies-for-public-health-a-scoping-review/.
References
Kamwa Ngne, A. & Morrison, V. (2021). Public Policy Competencies for Public Health: A Review of the Literature. National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy.
Speakers
Kari Barkhouse
Inge RoosendaalFacilitation
Janet Dawson
Health Promoter Specialist
Peterborough Public Health