Canada's role: Agenda 2030 National Strategy and Factors Influencing Federal Uptake of the SDGs
About this event
About the Event
In 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were ratified by member countries (including Canada). They provide a global framework for action for people, the planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership, and an explicit focus on “leaving no one behind”. When the SDGs were first ratified, several challenges, including enhanced intersectoral and coordinated leadership efforts, were identified as gaps in furthering this ambitious agenda.
This Dialogue will feature presentations by:
Olivier Bullion (SDG Unit, Government of Canada) on Canada’s Agenda 2030 National Strategy: the federal contribution
Erica Di Ruggiero and Joslyn Trowbridge (Dalla Lana School of Public Health) will share preliminary research findings from a research project investigating the global, social, political and economic factors influencing the federal uptake of SDGs in Canada.
A facilitated dialogue led by Sameera Hussain will follow the presentations.
Olivier Bullion - Director, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Unit, Government of Canada
Olivier joined ESDC in June 2019 to head the SDG Unit. Created in 2018, the SDG Unit is to lead the overall coordination of Canada’s 2030 Agenda and its 17 SDGs, in close collaboration with all other departments and agencies. It is notably mandated to develop a National Strategy, a Federal Implementation Plan, both released this year, monitor and report on activities related the 2030 Agenda, raise public awareness of, and support for, the 2030 Agenda, foster new partnerships and networks to advance the SDGs, and develop and administer the SDG Funding program. Olivier has spent the better part of his career working in the diplomatic service at Global Affairs Canada, and has held various assignments in Europe, Asia, Middle East and North America. He is an avid traveller, having visited more than 70 countries around the world. Olivier is a policy expert and economist who strongly believes that the SDGs help build a better world.
Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero - Associate Professor of Global Health in the Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences Division and Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto & Director of the Centre for Global Health and the Collaborative Specialization in Global Health.
Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero's program of research examines how evidence affects global policy agendas related to employment, other determinants and health equity in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. She addresses governance-related questions about the roles of global and national institutions in health and health equity. She also studies the implementation of population health interventions (policies, programs), using novel conceptual and methodological tools to conduct comparative policy research on global social and health inequities. She holds a PhD in public health sciences from the University of Toronto. She is Editor-in-Chief of Global Health Promotion and the co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Promotion.
Dr. Sameera Hussain - Public Health Agency of Canada & Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Epidemiology and Public Health
Sameera Hussain is a global health policy expert working at the intersection of academia, policy, and practice. Her current work is focussed on transformation in the post-COVID19 context using systems approaches for effective policy-making. She works at the Public Health Agency of Canada advancing strategic priorities for post-COVID-19 recovery and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Epidemiology and Public Health. She is passionate about knowledge mobilization to bridge the evidence to policy gap in health systems. She maintains an active research agenda around health equity, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), structural determinants of health, and whole-of-government approaches to health and well-being. Dr. Hussain serves on the editorial board of BMC’s Globalization and Health Journal. She holds a doctorate in global public health and degrees in political and development studies.
Joslyn Trowbridge - Ph.D. candidate in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and a Research Fellow with the Global Strategy Lab
Joslyn Trowbridge is a Ph.D. candidate in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and a Research Fellow with the Global Strategy Lab. Her research investigates the use of policy theories and mental models in the design of large-scale public health strategies and the governance of public health. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and has worked at federal and provincial health ministries.
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