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Dr. Shehzad Ali, from Western’s Schulich School of Medicine, was recently awarded a 4-year CIHR grant of $439,876 to examine ways to integrate equity into policy decision-making. Dr. Ali and colleagues will first explore the challenges and opportunities of incorporating equity into real-world economic evaluations through interviews with key health policy actors. The team will then conduct ‘equity-efficiency trade-off’ experiments using population surveys to quantify the relative value society places on reducing inequity at the cost of sacrificing efficiency. The work will fill an important gap by providing analysts and decision-makers with new ways to think about cost-effectiveness and inequity, considering domains such as socioeconomic status, gender and race. A key output of the project is first-of-their-kind guidelines to facilitate embedding equity considerations into health policy-focused economic evaluations. CRHESI will facilitate knowledge sharing and partner engagement, offering knowledge mobilization opportunities to link emerging findings to community priorities.  

Watch this space for updates!

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. 

 DATE: FEBRUARY 8th 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM EST

This one-day virtual event will be an opportunity to share lessons learned from implementing the OCASI Mental Health Promotion Integrated Service Model and to collaborate with key stakeholders across primary care, mental health, and the settlement sectors on how to build a trauma and violence-informed workplace that prioritizes client and staff mental health.

KEY OBJECTIVES:
1. Learn about experiences, challenges, and successes in implementing the OCASI Mental Health Promotion Integrated Service Mode

2. Share knowledge and learn strategies on how to implement trauma and violence informed approaches at work

3. Engage in discussions, brainstorm, and plan for the future of mental health promotion in the immigrant and refugee serving sector

4. Enhance cross-sectoral collaboration between settlement, primary care, and mental health sectors

To Register: Click here

If you have any questions or for more information, please contact 
Caley Cross at  ccross@ocasi.org

February – March 2023 | English, with closed captioning and simultaneous French interpretation.

Black health: a key area for public health education and action

Anti-Black racism is a specific form of racism, rooted in the colonial history and practice of enslavement, that continues to impact the lives of Black people, regardless of whether they have a specific lineage to the enslaved in Canada, or if they are recent comers to Canada. Policies and practices rooted in Canadian institutions such as, health care, education, and justice mirror and reinforce beliefs, attitudes, prejudice, stereotyping and/or discrimination towards people of African descent and lead to a lack of equitable access, opportunities and outcomes for Black people. 

Recognizing the need for specialized public health education and action in this area, the NCCDH is partnering with the Black Health Education Collaborative, a community of scholars and practitioners committed to improving Black health through education and research. This partnership will offer the Canadian public health community an important capacity building opportunity in the form of a three-part interactive webinar series. In this series, participants will explore how anti-Black racism impacts health and identify concrete opportunities for public health action.  

Webinars in this series:

Part 1: #BlackLivesMatter in public health: Critical race theory, historical roots and legacies of anti-Black racism. | February 1st, 2023 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET

Part 2: Anti-Black racism: A look at the social and physiological health impacts of injustice. | March 1st, 2023 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET

Part 3: Uprooting anti-Black racism: Strategies and approaches for public health. | March 29th, 2023 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET

Register Here