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You Talked, We Listened: What is next for Health Promotion Canada?    

National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) is hosting leaders from Health Promotion Canada as they share the findings of a recent national survey of health promotion practitioners and academics. This webinar will explore themes related to the need for a national health promotion organization/network to support intersectoral and interdisciplinary action, including on the social and structural determinants of health.    

March 9, 2023 |1 – 2 pm ET 

Join volunteer leaders from Health Promotion Canada as they share the findings of a recent national survey of health promotion practitioners and academics. This webinar will explore themes related to the need for a national health promotion organization/network to support intersectoral and interdisciplinary action, including on the social and structural determinants of health.    

Learn more and register here. 

Let’s talk about applying intersectionality in public health: A two-part webinar series.  

NCCDH is also leading a 2-part webinar series entitled ‘Let’s talk about applying intersectionality in public health’. The term ‘intersectionality’ is increasingly used (and misused) in both public health and in societal discourse. In this series participants will have the opportunity to review the historic roots of intersectionality, discuss its relevance to public health and health equity, and explore what it means to “take an intersectionality approach”. 

March-May 2023

In this two-part webinar series, participants will have the opportunity to review the historic roots of intersectionality, discuss its relevance to public health and health equity, and explore what it means to “take an intersectionality approach”.

Part 1: What is intersectionality, and why it is important for public health? | March 22, 2023 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET

Learn more and register here. 

The London Black History Coordinating Committee is hosting an afternoon of dance, song, spoken word, history and more.

Reception, including food and drinks, to follow.

Get tickets by clicking the following link https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/black-history-month-closing-ceremony-tickets-514066726417 or phone the Wolf Performance Hall 519-661-5120 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm).

NEST (Network for Economic and Socail Treands) presents: Why Cities Need a Public Life: A Revisionist Return to the Essence of the ‘Casual’ in Thinking about Social Capital

This talk explores how people get things done in urban settings. It returns to the old debate on social capital. Does it still make sense to think of social capital as embedded in social networks in an era of increased mobility, digitalization and the expansion of social networks across space? Does social capital theory as the central approach to how people access resources to get by and get ahead pay sufficient attention to the casual fluid encounters which also happen in urban life, especially in public space?

Drawing on some core ideas in her book Community as Urban Practice, Talja Blokland explores these questions, arguing that urban public life – settings where people rub shoulders on their way to do something else – remains essential. Beyond the closure of preference-based algorithms and life-style bubbles, such ‘absent ties’ can provide access to resources, especially when they provide what she calls ‘public familiarity’.

Professor Talja Blokland (PhD Amsterdam) is professor of urban sociology at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

The follwing link has more information about the event https://nest.uwo.ca/news_and_events/speaker_series.html

Equity in Action

National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH)

The Equity in Action project aims to lift community voices as a form of evidence by sharing stories of successful equity-driven initiatives from across Canada. This repository of positive narratives can facilitate learning and connection among Public Health Practitioners in Canada and guide equity-based planning through pandemic recovery and beyond.  

Read the stories here.

L’équité en action

Centre de collaboration nationale des déterminants de la santé (CCNDS)

Le projet « L’équité en action » vise à faire entendre la voix des communautés en faisant connaître des interventions menées d’un bout à l’autre du Canada pour l’équité. Le présent répertoire de récits positifs pourrait faciliter l’apprentissage et les liens entre les professionnels de la santé publique au Canada en plus d’éclairer un processus de planification fondé sur l’équité pour le rétablissement de la pandémie et par la suite.  

Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus 

The following London Community Foundation grants will be closing in Feb.

Community Vitality – Feb 10, 2023
Community Services Recovery Fund – Feb 21, 2023

The following link has more information https://www.lcf.on.ca/grants-awards