January 11, 2017 (2:00 - 3:00 PM ET)

Offered by the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCHEH)

This webinar was available in English only.

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Concept

Health equity is a crosscutting issue that relates to every facet of public health, including environmental health. This webinar will:

1. Examine how and where health equity issues intersect with environmental public health practice, using stories and examples to illustrate how health equity issues arise in practice, how practitioners respond, and how health equity fits within a health protection mandate.

2. Clarify potential roles for frontline practitioners and environmental health leadership, including an exploration of individual-and organizational-level factors that can facilitate the application of an equity lens in environmental public health.

3. Provide action-oriented tools that can be used by individual practitioners who wish to apply an equity lens to practice, as well as resources to guide environmental health managers and leaders who plan to integrate equity within an environmental health team, department, or agency.

Speakers

Karen Rideout

Policy Analyst, BC Centre for Disease Control/NCCEH

Karen Rideout is a policy analyst at the BC Center for Disease Control, Environmental Health Services Division and at the National Collaborating Center for Environmental Health. She is a food systems specialist whose work focuses on the interactions between food, nutrition, the environment, and health. Dr. Rideout is the project manager for “Through an Equity Lens: A New Look at Environmental Health,” a BCCDC project to build capacity for health equity work among EHOs and other environmental health professionals in BC. Her current work also includes health and the built environment and supporting collaboration between the food security and food safety sectors.

Accreditation

This event is approved for up to 6.5 credits by the Office for Continuing Professional Development. The Office for CPD, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Education (CACME). This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Through an agreement between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme. Each physician should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

January 30 from 1 – 2:30 p.m (EST)

Offered by the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT)

This webinar was offered in English only.

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Concept

In 2008, Peel Public Health embarked on a strategic initiative to implement evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) across the organization (Peirson et al, 2012). In 2012, the preliminary findings of a case study on Peel’s EIDM initiative were published. Early in the implementation of the strategic initiative, the authors determined that the following elements are critical for successful organizational change to support EIDM: leadership; organizational structure; human resources; organizational culture; knowledge management; communication; and change management. 

Now, in the final stretch of their 10-year strategy towards achieving the goal of becoming an EIDM organization, the health department has evaluated changes in capacity over time in a longitudinal follow-up study. 

The webinar will present physician leaders with practical, critical and real-time insights and assessments to inform and/or re-calibrate their efforts. Join us to learn how to successfully lead, plan and invest in a change initiative to implement EIDM at the organizational level. 

This webinar builds capacity in the following Minimum MOH Core Competency areas (PHPC, 2009):

• Leadership and Management
• Policy, Planning and Program Development

Speakers

Dr. Megan Ward

Associate Medical Officer of Health, Region of Peel

In this webinar, Dr. Megan Ward, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Region of Peel, will discuss the impacts and outcomes of EIDM, as well as the contextual factors that facilitate or challenge system transformations to promote EIDM and quality improvement in public health.  Dr. Ward acknowledges the challenges posed by such an organization-wide initiative: “We just started really really small because we didn’t really know what to do or how to do it. So we started with assessing our organizational need. It grew from there.” (From “Starting Small: http://www.nccmt.ca/resources/multimedia?v=128#ure2) 

Readings/surveys

Peirson L, Ciliska D, Dobbins M, Mowat D. (2012). Building capacity for evidence informed decision making in public health: a case study of organizational change. BMC Public Health. 20;12:137. Available at: http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-12-137 

National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools. Using evidence in public health decisions: Why it matters. http://www.nccmt.ca/resources/multimedia?v=552#ure2

Accreditation

This event is approved for up to 6.5 credits by the Office for Continuing Professional Development. The Office for CPD, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Education (CACME). This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Through an agreement between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme. Each physician should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

February 13, 2017 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET

Offered by the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease (NCCID)

This webinar was available in English only.

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Concept

In Canada, it is anticipated that climate change will increase the geographic range and distribution of insect vectors that are known to transmit disease and introduce new challenges to the public health system.

In this panel presentation, experts will discuss what is known and unknown about emerging mosquito-borne diseases of concern to Canadians, including those caused by West Nile virus and Zika virus infections. Particular attention will be given to current public health strategies, diagnostics, surveillance and research in prediction, prevention and response, as well as the prospective impacts of climate change on disease risk and transmission. Implications for public health practice and policy will be discussed.

One hour will be dedicated to presentations and brief Q+A, followed by a 30 min interactive discussion period with panelists. Registrants will have the opportunity to submit questions of interest prior to the webinar.

Learning objectives will be tailored to meet several Minimum Competencies for Medical Officers of Health in Canada (PHPC, 2009), in the following domains:

• Monitoring and assessing the health of the public
• Public health consultant
• Investigating and mitigating immediate risks to human health
• Policy, planning and program development
• Communication, collaboration and advocacy for the public’s health 

Speakers

Dr. Nick Ogden

Dr. Nick Ogden is a senior research scientist and Director of Public Health Risk Sciences division within the National Microbiology Laboratory of the Public Health Agency of Canada, focusing on the ecology, epidemiology and genetic diversity of vectors and zoonotic and vector-borne micro-organisms, assessing impacts of climate change and developing tools for public health adaptation in the field of zoonoses.

Dr. Ogden is a UK-trained veterinarian (University of Liverpool, 1983). After 10 years of mixed clinical practice, he completed a doctorate in Lyme disease ecology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford in 1996 and spent six years as a lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, continuing his research into the ecology and epidemiology of tick-borne diseases. In 2002 he moved to Canada, where he continued research on the ecology of Lyme disease and other zoonoses and climate change as a Research Scientist at the Public Health Agency of Canada. As interim Director of the Environmental Issues Division of the Public Health Agency of Canada he directed a program on climate change and vector and water-borne disease risks, and community adaptation to these risks. As Director of the Zoonoses Division he directed programs on national coordination, surveillance and prevention of zoonoses including Lyme disease and West Nile virus.

Dr. Ogden will describe the context of climate change and its impacts on mosquito-borne disease risk and epidemiology in Canada, as well as current research in disease modelling and prediction.

Dr. Mike Drebot

Dr. Mike Drebot is the Director of the Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens (ZDSP) section within the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML), Public Health Agency of Canada (Winnipeg). He is also an Associate Professor in the Medical Microbiology department at the University of Manitoba. 

The focus of his research and reference services activities has been to work with colleagues at ZDSP and various partners / collaborators on the establishment of applied and basic research programs for various zoonotic & vector borne disease agents including: arboviruses (such as West Nile virus and Zika viruses) and rodent-borne pathogens such as hantaviruses.  During his presentation Dr. Drebot will provide an overview on response efforts dealing with mosquito-borne virus emergence including diagnostic development, epidemiological studies, and basic research approaches / initiatives.

Dr. Robbin Lindsay

Robbin Lindsay is a medical entomologist who is currently is employed with the Public Health Agency of Canada at the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in the Zoonotic Disease and Special Pathogens section.  The focus of his work is laboratory and field-based surveillance for various zoonotic disease agents including: Lyme borreliosis and other tick-associated infection, hantaviruses and other rodent associated pathogens and mosquito-borne infections like West Nile virus and Zika virus.  His program balances reference diagnostic services, surveillance activities and applied research projects and ultimately the information gained from these core activities are used to better define the risk factors, geographic distribution and intervention strategies available to minimize human exposure to zoonotic disease agents.

Dr. Lindsay will be speaking to emerging research and public health strategies in vector prevention, response and control.

 

Accreditation

This event is approved for up to 6.5 credits by the Office for Continuing Professional Development. The Office for CPD, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Education (CACME). This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Through an agreement between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme. Each physician should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

March 14th, 2017 from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 pm ET.

Offered by the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP)

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Concept

This webinar is potentially of interest to public health actors whose work touches on questions of health inequalities and health equity as well as those interested in policy approaches in public health.

The webinar is intended to enable public health actors to more easily distinguish between the most widespread policy approaches that have been proposed to reduce health inequalities. These approaches are: political economy, macro social policies, intersectionality, life course, settings approach, approaches that aim at living conditions, those that target communities, and approaches aimed at individuals.

We set out to clarify how these different approaches are grounded theoretically, how they affect inequalities differently, and how adopting one or the other can impact attempts to reduce health inequalities.

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Differentiate between eight different policy approaches to reducing health inequalities. 
2. Classify each approach as acting on either the determinants of health or the determinants of health inequalities. 
3. Illustrate how adopting one or another of the policy approaches will affect the potential reduction of health inequalities differently.

Understanding policy approaches to reducing health inequalities can be useful for advancing public health physicians' competencies in these domains:

• Policy, planning & program development
• Communication, collaboration & advocacy for the public's health
• Leadership and management

Speakers

Val Morrison, Research Officer NCCHPP

Readings/Surveys

In preparation for the webinar, participants are invited to read the document “Policy Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities.”

Accreditation

This event is approved for up to 6.5 credits by the Office for Continuing Professional Development. The Office for CPD, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Education (CACME). This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Through an agreement between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme. Each physician should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

March 2, 2017 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM (ET)

Offered by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCHDH)

This webinar was available in English only.

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Concept

The central question for this webinar is: Would dividing healthcare dollars up differently—with more money going to improve people’s living conditions and less to acute care — help us achieve better health outcomes for all Canadians. And could this be done without growing health costs?

The presenters and participants will explore

• evidence that demographic and economic pressures are stretching Canada’s ability to maintain its system of individual-centered health care
• evidence that greater investment in upstream action from within the health sector is both socially just and economically sound
• arguments for and against moving acute care dollars into preventative health programs and policies

Speaker

Karen Fish, Knowledge translation specialist, NCCDH

Karen has worked for 20+ years as a researcher, writer, and editor specializing in health, science, and science & society issues. She helped communicate the results of studies into such topics as youth resilience, university-community collaborations to improve the health determinants, and citizen engagement processes for mobilizing people around health determinants issues. She earned her Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University and her MA in Educational Technology from Concordia University.

Readings

This session will be based on the NCCDH publication, “Economic arguments for shifting health dollars upstream.”

Accreditation

This event is approved for up to 6.5 credits by the Office for Continuing Professional Development. The Office for CPD, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Education (CACME). This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Through an agreement between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme. Each physician should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.