Presentations

Bob Gardner developed and presented a workshop on health promotion with policy impact to the annual Health Promotion Ontario conference. It was designed to help people in various health promotion positions and sectors make a strong case for needed programmes, research and innovation to policy makers. The workshop focussed on how to identify the policy implications of the projects they were working on, translate these initiatives into ‘policy speak’ with cost-benefit, risk assessment, options and concrete recommendations and ‘asks’, and effectively present and promote their cases to decision makers.

Presentation to the Portuguese-Canadian National Congress on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity.

Bob Gardner, Director of Research and Policy, presented at the OPHA in November 2007 on health equity, chronic disease, and the social determinants of health. His Blueprint for Health Equity talk sets out promising policy directions and action to reduce health disparities.

Bob Gardner spoke to the board of the Family Service Association of Toronto. The talk focussed on the potential of LHINs (Local Health Integration Networks) to support enhanced health equity, equity and related challenges to be faced in the coming period and implications for community-based service providers.

This presentation by Michael Shapcott (2006) provides an overview of urban health issues in Canada, as well as the international context.  Also provides historical information about housing/homelessness in Canada, and statistics about Toronto neighbourhoods. 

A presentation by Michael Shapcott (2006), making the connection between housing, homelessness and health. 

Rolf Rosenbrock is Head of the Research Group on Public Health at the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin (WZB), Professor for Social Sciences and Public Health Policy at the Technical University of Berlin and is a member of key advisory bodies.  He visited the Wellesley Institute and gave a presentation titled: Primary Prevention to Fight Inequalities – The German Experience and Lessons Learned.  

Presentation to the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions Conference by Bob Gardner, Director of Public Policy.  August 2007. 

Presentation to the Ontario Society of Physicians in HIV Care by Bob Gardner, Director of Public Policy. November 28th, 2006. 

The HIV community and service providers are vitally interested in the implications of Local Health Integration Networks, primary care reform, alternative practice structures and other key changes.

This is a presentation made by Bob Gardner, Director of Public Policy,  outlining the possible implications of major reform directions, and arguing that community groups need to be proactive in working to shape the terms of  health reform debate.