Date
February 6, 2025
From 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EST (Toronto time)
Language: English
Agenda
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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 aims 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
Specific objectives
- 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 is open only to CNHiAP members or their delegates. Participants will be required to be complete a registration form so we can better tailor the activities to their needs.
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
Facilitation
Janet Dawson
Health Promoter Specialist
Peterborough Public Health