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The six National Collaborating Centres (NCCs) for Public Health work together to promote and improve the use of scientific research and other knowledge to strengthen public health practices, programs, and policies in Canada. A unique knowledge hub, the NCCs identify knowledge gaps, foster networks, and provide the public health system with an array of evidence-based resources, multi-media...
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Workshops Presentations
Topics: Built Environment, Nuisance Control, Pest Control ON, Canada
Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) 2010 Centennial Conference
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Topics: Practices and Procedures, Risk Analysis ON, Canada
Presentations:
Risk Communication Theories and Principles, with Examples*Timothy Sly, Ryerson University
Risk Communication in Practice from One Health Department's PerspectiveNelson Fok, Alberta Health Services
Handout:
* The Perception and Communication of Risk: A Guide for the Local Health Agency
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Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Environmental HealthDonna Ciliska, National Collaborating Centre for Methods and ToolsChristina Chociolko, NCCEH
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IntroductionKaren Rideout and Prabjit Barn, NCCEH
Public Health and the Body Modification IndustryElwood, Elwood's Body Modification
Public Health Inspectors and Personal Services Settings - Regulatory and Knowledge GapsChristian Lapensee, Ottawa Public Health
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Food Safety InterventionsHannah Moffatt, NCCEH
Toronto Public Health Food Safety Inspection and Disclosure ProgramRon de Burger, Toronto Public Health
Evidence-informed decision-making for food safety in Ontario: Do we have what it takes?Ray Copes, Public Health Ontario
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Topics: Public Facilities, Indoor Air ON, Canada
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Housing and HealthTom Kosatsky, NCCEHMona Shum, NCCEH
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Topics: Practices and Procedures ON, Canada
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Telling the Regulatory Performance StorySteve Montague, Performance Management Network Inc.
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Presentations:
Introduction and overviewRay Copes, Public Health Ontario
Food Safety Interventions of Food Service Establishments Brian Lee, NCCEH
Update on DineSafe Ron de Burger, Toronto Public Health
Serving Safer Food AlbertaMichael Sidra, Alberta Health Services
Food Safety Calendar Carolyn Pigeau, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Sharing Challenges:
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Topics: Practices and Procedures, Surveillance ON, Canada
Presentations:
IntroductionTom Kosatsky, BCCDC
Environmental Health Surveillance in Canada NowEric Lavigne, PHAC
National Environmental Public Health Tracking: Environmental Health Surveillance in the U.S.Heather Strosnider, US CDC
Environmental Public Health Tracking In New York StateNeil Muscatiello, New York State Department of Health
Environmental Public Health Surveillance in EnglandMike...
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Taking a Big Picture Approach in Environmental Public Health: Public Health Inspectors and Food Security Interventions
Presentations:
Food safety approaches in community food security interventionsEllen Desjardins, University of Waterloo
Taking a big picture approach in environmental public health: PHIs and food security interventionsKaren Rideout, NCCEH
Systems Approach to Environmental Health
Ron de Burger, Toronto Public Health
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Event
Topics: Cannabis, Indoor Air, Mould ON, Canada
This webinar is presented as part of the CPHA Cannabis Webinar Series.
Personal cultivation as described by the Cannabis Act (2017) permits adults to cultivate up to four cannabis plants per household. This provision is intended to both promote equity by facilitating access to legal cannabis, particularly when retail outlets are difficult to access, and to undercut the black market. However,...
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Intrinsic and acquired drug resistance of microbial pathogens poses a grave threat to human health and has enormous economic consequences worldwide. Fungal pathogens present a particular challenge because they are eukaryotes and share many of the same biological processes as the human hosts they infect. The number of drug classes that have distinct targets in fungi is very limited and the...
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This presentation will cover findings from a recent publication on the burden or health impact of foodborne illness in Ontario.
As part of an effort by the Environmental and Occupational Health team at Public Health Ontario (PHO) to estimate the environmental burden of disease for the province, we gauged the annual number of deaths and contacts with the healthcare system in Ontario due to...
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Ready-To-Eat Meat Products, Environmental Testing Programs and Listeria and OMAFRA-licensed facilities
Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen and the causative agent of listeriosis. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) conducts testing for Listeria monocytogenes ready-to-eat (RTE) meat products produced in Freestanding Meat Plants (FSMPs) and is exploring expanding environmental swabbing in FSMPs for Listeria spp.
On June 1, 2005, Ontario Regulation 31/05...
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Topics: Contaminants and Hazards, Physical Agents ON, Canada
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Topics: Practices and Procedures, Public Facilities ON, Canada
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Topics: Chemical Agents, Surveillance, Indoor Air, Physical Agents ON, Canada
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University Health Network in Toronto has the largest dedicated construction infection control unit in Canada. The program covers about 9 million square feet and hundreds of projects. The discussion will include data collection methods, descriptive statistics, and case studies used to grow the unit, enhance program delivery and reduce patient and institutional exposure risk.
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Topics: Built Environment ON, Canada
Housing plays an immense and complex role in shaping our physical, mental and social well-being. Access, condition, proximity to environmental hazards, and connectedness with the rest of the community are all factors that determine whether housing contributes to or detracts from human health. This relationship has been recognized in the Healthy Environments and Climate Change Guideline released...
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Topics: Built Environment ON, Canada
Occupational and Environmental Health Seminar
The presentation will explore how neighbourhood walkability may influence physical activity levels and chronic disease risk. Examples will include Public Health Ontario’s research into the relationship between walkability and health. The presenter will also describe recent analyses of climate variables, such as temperature and precipitation, and how...
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The expanding range of mosquito and tick vectors: Importance of robust vector surveillance in Ontario
Topics: Risk Analysis, Ticks ON, Canada
As persistent changes in weather patterns affect the spread of exotic arthropod vectors worldwide, Ontario has also seen the introduction of exotic mosquitoes and ticks. Based on Ontario’s mosquito and tick surveillance programs, this province has seen the introduction, and possible establishment, of some notable exotic species. The lone star tick is a voracious biter and implicated in red meat...
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Topics: Indigenous Environmental Health, Built Environment, Biological Agents, Cannabis, Children's Environmental Health, Contaminants and Hazards, Drinking Water, Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response, Surveillance, Equity, Food, Indoor Air, Personal Service Establishments, Practices and Procedures, Radiation, Recreational Water, Tobacco Reduction, Water ON, Canada
TOPHC 2019 will explore how strategy, leadership and practice align to address changes in the public health sector. Discover tools and approaches to move knowledge into practice, refresh your knowledge at thought-provoking sessions and collaborate with colleagues motivated to build healthier and more sustainable communities.
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Understanding this common ground is critically important, with many current social, humanitarian, security and broad public health issues requiring an inter-sectoral approach. In...
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Joint Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISES-ISEE 2018)
The ISES-ISEE 2018 Joint Annual Meeting theme is “Addressing Complex Local and Global Issues in Environmental Exposure and Health.” The ISES-ISEE 2018 Joint Annual Meeting will be inclusive to delegates from around the world, and will leverage local and international expertise to address complex local and global topics relevant to exposure science and environmental epidemiology.
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Topics: Forest Fires, Outdoor Air ON, Canada
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The upcoming legalization of recreational cannabis will have implications for municipal governments, their communities and for public health. This session addresses topical issues related to anticipated recreational cannabis legalization from public health and municipal perspectives. From a municipal perspective, Craig Reid will discuss expected local impacts due to implementation, including...
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Topics: Indigenous Environmental Health ON, Canada
We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd biennial Indigenous Health Conference (IHC): Walking Together. This interdisciplinary conference is designed to help health care providers understand how Indigenous ways of knowing with respect to health and well-being can be utilized in health care approaches for Indigenous peoples.
IHC will also host a post-conference course on May 26, 2018 in...
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Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC) - Tackling Local Air Quality at the Local Level: Peel Public Health’s Experience
Topics: Outdoor Air ON, Canada
Ambient air quality is a long-standing concern in Peel region. While health is the common concern, the sources of pollution range from industrial emissions, to power plants, aggregate extraction and transportation and growth. The two ambient air monitors in Peel region, in Mississauga and Brampton, operated by the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, do not provide sufficient...
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Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC) - Environmental sources of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants and associated risk of breast cancer in young women: Early results from a population-based Ontario study
Topics: Contaminants and Hazards, Surveillance ON, Canada
In this seminar, an update of the Ontario Environment and Health Study (OEHS) will be provided. The OEHS is a breast cancer case-control study in Ontario women, aged 18-44 years. In this study, blood and urine were collected to measure biomarkers of exposure to PBDE and OP flame retardants. As part of the overall exposure assessment strategy, a database of PBDE in foods and supplements was...
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Topics: Practices and Procedures ON, Canada
Social media platforms have become an increasingly important tool in supporting public health protection and promotion. This session will highlight effective models of social media use in public health to engage and educate community members as well as to address communication gaps. Using examples from health promotion and communicable disease control, this session will examine how social media...
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Public Health Ontario (PHO) et al. - The Ontario Public Health Convention (TOPHC) 2018: Leadership. Partnership. Change.
The Ontario Public Health Convention (TOPHC) is your opportunity to connect with health professionals from Ontario and beyond to share knowledge and develop skills related to public health. For three days in March, TOPHC 2018 will explore how we can lead through change, respond with innovative opportunities and partnerships, and set the course for a strong and renewed public health sector...
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Topics: Contaminants and Hazards, Infectious Diseases ON, Canada
On December 4, 2015, Hamilton Public Health Services received a report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) of raccoon strain rabies in a raccoon that attacked two dogs. This rabid raccoon was the first rabies-positive terrestrial animal since 1994 in Hamilton. Between December 2015 and December 2017, Hamilton received reports of over 275 rabid animals. This presentation will provide...
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CIPHI Seminar Series - Navigating Uncharted Territory: The experience of Public Health Inspectors in Clinical IPAC Audits
Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) work is being conducted by Certified Public Health Inspectors (CPHIs) in Ontario Public Health Units. This is due in large part to the current IPAC Practices Complaint Protocol requiring PHUs to investigate all IPAC related complaints in the community. While CPHIs have the unique and valuable skills in IPAC and risk assessment necessary to lead IPAC...
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Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC) - Burden of Occupational Cancer in Ontario: Major Workplace Carcinogens and Prevention of Exposure
Topics: Contaminants and Hazards ON, Canada
In October 2017, the Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC) and Cancer Care Ontario released a report on the impact of workplace carcinogens in Ontario. The report, “Burden of Occupational Cancer in Ontario: Major Workplace Carcinogens and Prevention of Exposure,” focused on carcinogens that are well-established causes of cancer: solar ultraviolet radiation, asbestos, diesel engine exhaust...
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The Sheela Basrur Centre and Public Health Ontario are offering a two-day crisis communications workshop focusing on the current opioid epidemic. This interactive workshop will highlight crisis and stakeholder communications while exploring best practices and lessons learned from the field. Both days will be facilitated by risk and emergency communications experts, The Warning Project. This...
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Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA) - Ecohealth in Action: Achieving Health and Well-being through Greenspace
Topics: Built Environment ON, Canada
Join us on November 9th in Toronto for our biennial workshop, Ecohealth in Action: Achieving Health and Well-being through Greenspace!
Our biennial, interactive workshop will include five round-table discussions; expert speakers from the fields of public health, planning, academia and the environment; a keynote speech from Dr. Faisal Moola; networking and a catered breakfast and lunch.
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Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors (CIPHI) ON Branch - 78th Annual Educational Conference
The 2017 CIPHI Annual Educational Conference will focus on the theme of Courage. Each day of the three day conference will highlight a different stream: the courage to lead, to connect and to innovate. Courage in public health practice is critical if we are to get from where we are today, to where we want to be tomorrow. As public health officials, we seek the courage to recognize opportunity,...
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