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  • DLSPH: Virtual Symposium on Population Health’s Past, Present, and Future (Part 4)

DLSPH: Virtual Symposium on Population Health’s Past, Present, and Future (Part 4)

  • 26 Feb 2021
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Virtual Symposium

Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH)

Virtual Symposium on Population Health’s Past, Present, and Future

With the onset of the COVID-19 era, we are at somewhat of a crossroads in the field of population health research. Data from several countries is demonstrating massive racial and socioeconomic inequalities in risk for acquiring Covid-19 and for the most severe associated outcomes. In Canada, this data has caused a groundswell of public and political attention on health inequalities, and of discourses about what policies may best address them. At this moment in time, it is well worth taking stock of the field of population health, which hasn’t been done for some time. What are the major findings of the 21st century to date? Where is the field headed in terms of its conceptual orientation to population health and health inequalities? What are the major data and methodological developments that will facilitate innovative population health research? What systems and structures would facilitate the uptake of findings from population health science in order to inform policies and other ways of making structural changes to society?


DAY 4 (MORNING OF FEBRUARY 26, 2021):

How Does Population Health Science Touch the Public Discourse and Policies?

While continued investment in the development of population health science is crucial, there is also growing recognition of the importance of communicating the current body of research to the public and policymakers.  In Canada, policymakers are drawing on population health science to understand how to form income assistance policy.  In the era of Covid-19, the importance of communicating population health science to the public and to policymakers has been made even more apparent.

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