Centre for
Health Promotion
University of Toronto
Public Health Sciences
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E-Info Update Fall 2008
Contents
Centre for Health Promotion’s
Annual General Meeting 2008
Tuesday December 2nd
4:00-7:00pm
Croft Chapter House, University College
Guest Speakers: Suzanne Jackson, Fran Perkins and Charlotte
Lombardo
“CHP Leadership in Primary Health in the Balkans Youth and Health Project"
A formal invitation will be sent at the end of October.
Director's Remarks
The last six months have been eventful as usual. The Centre is now part of the new Dalla Lana School of Public Health and it will be exciting to be part of the changes as the new School gets fully underway. The CHP continued to push new ideas, and focus on training and evaluation over the last six months. The Health Promotion Summer School in June 2008 focused on the role of health promotion in emergency management and we are hoping to publish an article describing the key elements of this role as it was articulated at the Summer School. The best practices used in the continuing education training modules run by the CHP and THCU, we are in the process of conduction impacts evaluation. The impact of the 2007 Summer School on mental health promotion practice was the subject of an evaluation conducted by Katharine Hagerman, MHSc student at U of T, over the summer. The health promotion planning courses offered in the Yukon and Nunavut to First Peoples also need impact evaluations. The latter are examples of transferring research and knowledge into health promotion and disease prevention programs in First Peoples’ communities in the Territories.
One of the key supports to help this happen is a new position at the CHP of Research Associate - First Peoples Specialist, funded by the Circumpolar Health Team Grant headed by Kue Young. I am thrilled that Katherine Minich is working in the position as of September 26th. She is assisting this fall with the preparation and delivery of the health promotion planning workshops in Nunavut and the Yukon, the evaluation of the impact of these workshops, and starting work on a Best Practice Guidelines for Mental Health Promotion with First Peoples in partnership with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Speaking of mental health promotion, the Centre has worked closely with colleagues at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Health Nexus, Canadian Mental Health Association and Ontario Public Health Association to write a mental health promotion policy paper and lobby for its acceptance by the Ministry of Health Promotion. At the national level, the Centre was part of a Consortium of organizations across Canada who have commissioned a background paper and planned a one-day Think Tank to discuss the kind of mental health promotion policy that would be important for Canada. Many thanks to CHP Fellow Andrea Stevens Lavigne who has been the Centre’s representative on these activities in addition to me.
In this newsletter, you will also see that the Health Communication Unit and the Youth Engagement Unit continue to offer excellent programs and lead significant research projects. One of the major staff changes at the Centre this September has been the loss of Kate Thorpe. Kate was the Financial and Administrative Assistant for the Centre since August 2007 and brought a great deal of order to the finances. Her energy and enthusiasm for the Healthy U of T Awards and the Greening of Public Health Sciences Committee as well as her competent and cheerful support for all of my activities will be sorely missed. She has gone back to the UK to be with her fiancé and I wish her all the best. I am still working on finding a replacement. I look forward to new beginnings and consolidating the progress that has been made over the last six months.
Suzanne Jackson, Ph.D.
Director
MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION IN PARTNESHIP WITH CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH (CAMH)
Mental Health Promotion E-Guides
Over the past four years, the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health, the Centre for Health Promotion and
Toronto Public Health have collaborated on the development of online
guides that highlight current, evidence-based
mental health promotion concepts and principles, and how to incorporate
a best practices approach to mental health promotion interventions aimed
at specific populations.
The first in the series, Mental Health Promotion Best Practice Guidelines
for Children (7-12) and Youth (13-19), was
released on the CAMH website in September 2007. The second e-guide
focuses on mental health promotion and older persons (55+ years of age),
and is due for release
in this fall. The third and fourth e-guides are currently
under development and focus on two
specific populations: New Canadians / immigrants, and refugees.
LHINs & Health Promotion Working Group
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the Centre for Health Promotion,
the FOCUS Resource
Centre, and Health Nexus are working together toward the
goal of integrating health promotion
work into the Local Health Integration Networks (LHIN) activities.
To that end, a webinar
for LHIN Program Integration and Community Engagement staff was presented
by the group in
June. Working with the Toronto Central LHIN to plan and present the "lunch & learn" event,
the focus of the webinar was to familiarize participants with
health promotion concepts and applications
by demonstrating a tool specifically designed to infuse health promotion
into LHIN planning
frameworks & activities. Evaluation results were positive, and
plans are underway for a second
instalment in fall 2008.
Mental Health Promotion Think Tank
A National Think Tank on Mental Health Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention
Policy will be held on November 4, 2008 in Calgary, Alberta. The
idea for the Think Tank arose out of the successful one-day symposium
on Mental Health Promotion that was held in June 2007 in Vancouver,
British Columbia as an adjunct to the International Union for Health
Promotion and Education Conference. Given the heightened interest
in mental health promotion policy internationally and current opportunities
in Canada to influence the policy agenda, members of the planning committee
secured additional support from the Mental Health Commission of Canada
and the Public Health Agency of Canada to plan the Think Tank. The
event will be hosted by the Alberta Mental Health Board and the BC
Mental Health and Addiction Services, in collaboration with the Centre
for Health Promotion, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the
Canadian Mental Health Association, the New Brunswick Ministry of Health,
the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, the Ontario Ministry of Health
Promotion, and the Embrace Life Council in Nunavut.
This event will bring together key stakeholders from across Canada as well as international experts to encourage interactive dialogue and to develop recommendations to inform an integrated mental health policy and strategy. The overall purpose of the event is: To review and analyze mental health strategies in jurisdictions outside of Canada with a particular focus on mental health promotion and mental illness prevention (e.g. European Union, Australia, Ireland); and to contribute recommendations to an integrated mental health strategy in Canada.
Clifford Beers Conference 2009
The Clifford Beers Foundation—a non-profit organization in the
UK devoted to the promotion of mental health—in conjunction with
the Mental Health Commission of Canada, is hosting an international conference
on mental health promotion in Toronto on March 4th - 6th, 2009. The conference,
Expanding our Horizons: Moving Mental Health and Wellness Promotion into
the Mainstream, is being presented by notable provincial, national & international
organizations, including the Centre for Health Promotion, the Centre
for Addiction and Mental Health, Health Nexus, the Canadian Mental Health
Association Ontario Division and the Ontario Peer Development Initiative.
The event is aimed at a wide audience, including policy makers and administrators;
professionals, managers and practitioners in a wide variety of private
and public sectors; consumers of health, education and social services;
and researchers and scientists.
A number of well-known experts in the field of mental health promotion have been confirmed as speakers for the conference. In addition, an open Call for Papers was released with a deadline of September 30, 2008. For further information, please visit the conference web site at <http://www.toronto.cliffordbeersfoundation.co.uk/>.
Mental Health Promotion Position Paper
The Centre for Health Promotion has been working together with other
provincial organizations – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health,
Health Nexus, CMHA Ontario and the Ontario Public Health Association – to
develop a position paper on Mental Health Promotion. This initiative
arose out of a common desire to influence public policy directions
in Ontario. These organizations were all committed to moving the health
promotion agenda forward and decided to combine their efforts to develop
a position paper that is currently being vetted by each of the individual
partner organizations. The paper includes a definition and key
concepts of mental health promotion, makes the case for mental health
promotion, highlights international evidence for three major areas
of priority (Social Inclusion, Freedom from Discrimination and Violence,
and Access to Economic Resources) and provides suggestions on how to
move forward to develop a provincial strategy. The paper, which
is fully referenced, also includes a number of specific options for
programs and policies under each of the priority areas. Representatives
from each of the organizations have also met with staffs at the Ontario
Ministry of Health Promotion, who have welcomed their efforts in bringing
focus to this important agenda.
DALLA LANA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Suzanne provides academic support to the MHSc health promotion program in the School of Public Health as well as acting as the Co-Director of the Global Health Concentration. It is great to report that the health promotion faculty has been increased with the addition of Dr. Farah Ahmad. Michael Goodstadt continues to provide excellent leadership for the program; and changes and improvements continue to be made. About 23 health promotion students started in September (the highest enrolment ever - about twice as many as in 2003). Suzanne is also the Co-Director of the Global Health Concentration; and about 20 students started in the concentration this fall (twice as many as the first cohort in 2006).
ONTARIO HEALTH PROMOTION SUMMER SCHOOL
Coordinator: Lisa Weintraub
Health Promotion Under Pressure – Strengthening Community Action
HPSS 2008 took place in Toronto, focusing on a curriculum addressing the role of health promotion in health crises. Workshops, lectures, discussion groups, and presentations dealt with the important contribution that health promotion can and should make to the prevention of, preparation for, management, and response to health crises, using a holistic approach to strengthening community support, action and collaboration.
The Centre for Health Promotion took the lead in creating programming, alongside three standing subcommittees, the Francophone, the First Peoples’, and General Stream committees, led by very capable chairs, Denise Hebert, Bernice Downey, and Charna Gord respectively. This year Suzanne Jackson, Director of the CHP and Chair of HPSS received active support for conceptualization of the theme and speaker recruitment from Olga Michie, Regional Officer from Emergency Preparedness and Response at PHAC. This year, we were honoured to welcome Hon. Carolyn Bennett as our Closing Plenary speaker.
Well over 110 participants from all over Ontario (and Canada and the world!) attended sessions offered by close to 60 presenters at HPSS 2008 in June. Of particular note this year, the First Peoples’ committee was able to set up a tipi on the hotel grounds, where participants held discussions and sessions, and met with Aboriginal Elders at HPSS.
Planning for HPSS 2009 is underway. Next year’s theme is Health
Promotion and Technology, which promises to be another timely and appealing
theme for many. Standing committees started to work on the curriculum
related to this theme in September.
For more information about HPSS in general, or HPSS 2009, contact HPSS
Coordinator, Lisa Weintraub, at 416 469 4632 or hpss@rogers.com.
Our 2009 web site will be in running order in November, and registration
for HPSS 2009 will begin in March.
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PROMOTION UNIT
Manager: Fran Perkins
Balkans Youth Health Project
As mentioned in earlier CHP news, the Canadian Society for International
Health coordinates this project with funding from the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA). CHP senior staff (Suzanne Jackson Fran Perkins,
Larry Hershfield, and Charlotte Lombardo) are involved as consultants.
In May
2008, Suzanne and other members of the Services and Outreach team of
this project went to Serbia and Bosnia to provide support for a 3-day
training event run in each country. These training events drew from ideas
and skills built at the 2-week training event held in July 2007 in Toronto.
Both events will be continued into the future as both countries begin
a series of continuing education training events towards creating youth
friendly health services. Other work of this team includes assisting
with the development of youth friendly health service standards and an
accreditation system, and the development of youth/adolescent health
modules in the medical curriculum of medical schools in Serbia.
Fran Perkins spent time in May to primarily to guide and direct a Forum on Youth Violence and Prevention which provided a framework for developing protocol on the process for Bullying Free Schools in Banja Luka, Bosnia which was very successful. The forum had an emphasis on youth engagement so the majority of the participants invited were youth (over 100). Since the forum, a protocol for schools has been developed and each class has developed their own code of conduct. The protocol is in the pilot testing phase. Fran returned to both Serbia and Bosnia to guide the local action sites. There are 8 in total with most emphasizing mental health and addictions as issues. The focus in this last year is to develop sustainable process and products. This includes establishing access to services to the most vulnerable youth.
Charlotte Lombardo spent time in September in local action sites in both countries working with youth about how to bring the youth voices into the local action sites. She worked with youth around their involvement in the implementation of youth friendly services through a proven process and to develop workbooks.
IUHPE
Fran and Suzanne attended the International IUHPE Board of Directors
meeting in Cairo in June 2008. Through the energy of the Directors
holding positions a lot of new directions are underway. For example,
the name of the IUHPE journal Promotion and Education is changed to
Global Health Promotion.
IUHPE and CHP partnered to sponsor a health promotion training given
in Ankara, Turkey in the first week of September by Nancy Dubois. She
gave an introduction to health promotion and chronic disease prevention
and included workshops on planning and evaluation.
Originally, we had hoped to have one trainer from CHP and one from
IUHPE but the timelines were too short to organize that well. We hope
there will be other opportunities in the future.
PAHO Mainstreaming
At the beginning of May, Suzanne met with Marilyn Rice and an internal
team she setup in PAHO to advise about mainstreaming health promotion
in PAHO. The framework and steps outlined in 2007 had been revised
and they were further refined at this meeting. Suzanne met with Dr.
Rosas and Dr. Galvao to discuss the next steps. The plan includes providing
information about health promotion to all staff and developing some
practical workshops. The idea is to apply health promotion concepts
to the 5 generic activities in PAHO: data collection and analysis,
program planning, healthy public policy/legislation and advocacy, strengthening
knowledge connected to action, and monitoring and evaluation. Seven
key health promotion components were identified to
be applied in all of the generic activities. An action plan was created
in May and the process is waiting for approval from the new Associate
Director of PAHO sometime this fall.
PAHO Evaluation Database Project
At the beginning of May, a team of people from Canada, US, Colombia,
and Brazil met in Washington to discuss the pilot-testing work each
unit was doing of the evaluation reporting protocol that had been developed
in November 2007. As a result of this meeting, a more refined version
of the protocol was put into an electronic format by Public Health
Agency of Canada. This version is now out for more testing in the fall
of 2008. All of this work is towards collecting reports about evaluations
of health promotion interventions from people across the Americas,
especially
Latin America
THE HEALTH COMMUNICATION UNIT
Manager: Larry Hershfield
THCU's Workplace Project
THCU’s Workplace Project is moving into its 9th year of promoting
comprehensive workplace health promotion to intermediaries across Ontario.
The Workplace Project team consists of Larry Hershfield, Nancy Dubois,
Nancy van Boxmeer, Giovanna Ferrara and Jessica Elgie.
On-line Training:
We continue to offer on-line workshops (or webinars) that are educational
and interactive group sessions on topics related to each step of the
Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion (CWHP) planning framework. Two
formats are available: a longer interactive style (2 hours in length)
and a shorter, presentation style (45 minutes in length). Topics
this year include: Working with Small Businesses, Stress and the Mandatory
Guidelines, Establishing Effective Healthy Workplace Committees and
Developing Workplace Wellness Plans that Work.
March 2009 Symposium:
Save the Date! The next Workplace Health Promotion
Symposium will be held on March 11 & 12 in Toronto, in partnership
with The Health Communication Unit and the Ontario Healthy Workplace
Coalition. Look for:
- March 11: Educational and training opportunities
- March 12: Networking opportunities and participation in the development of the OHWC
This year’s Symposium will be packed with two days of learning, networking and sharing information on workplace health promotion.
For more information on the Symposium, to view the webinar schedule and to register go to http://www.thcu.ca/Workplace/workshopsandevents.htm
Resources and Website
A variety of comprehensive workplace health promotion resources are available
in hard copy or on-line. THCU is constantly researching, developing,
and reviewing information packs on workplace health promotion. Our
newest resources are two on-line catalogues of Situational Assessment
Tools and Well-Regarded Interventions. To view our complete resource
list go to: www.thcu.ca/Workplace/infoandresources.htm
New information packs planned for 2008/2009 include Evaluation and Best Practices in CWHP, Mental Health in the Workplace and Organizational Culture: Assessment to Action.
THCU manages the Workplace Health Promotion Virtual Community -an on-line space to share insights, opinions and resources to support comprehensive workplace health promotion initiatives. The Virtual Community is a free service; by creating a user profile you can post articles, resources, events or join a discussion! To sign-up go to: www.thcu.ca/Workplace/vc/login.cfm
Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition
We continue to facilitate the development of the Ontario Healthy Workplace
Coalition (OHWC) by providing Secretariat support to the Steering Committee.
The OHWC have been busy over the summer developing their website www.ohwc.ca,
creating linkages with key stakeholders, developing common messaging
on CWHP, building a membership base and developing their communication
strategy. Upcoming will be their yearly election, the launch
of the OHWC website and the start of their membership drive.
If you have Workplace Project questions, comments and/or requests for materials, please contact Jessica Elgie at jelgie@thcu.ca.
Youth Tobacco Vortal Project
The Youth Tobacco Vortal Project is now in its 9th year of encouraging
and supporting community public health agencies make use of web-based
technologies to communicate with and engage young people in tobacco control
issues. The project’s central website, Smoke FX (www.smoke-fx.com),
provides local agencies a gateway to information and resources targeting
young people.
Since its inception, the Youth Tobacco Vortal Project has grown to include 47 community-based affiliate sites. The majority of these affiliates are Youth Action Alliances representing the various regions throughout Ontario. The YTVP supports its affiliate base by assisting them in developing their own regional websites that focus on tobacco control and youth. All of the YAAs are affiliates of the project and over half of these YAAs worked with the YTVP web development team to create their regional site(s).
To expand the YTVP affiliate base, a submission outlining the YTVP and
inviting new affiliates was included as part of the Stupid.ca and PTCC
toolkits which were distributed to all High School Grant Programs in
early September 2008. A series of webinars are planned before the end
the fiscal to support existing as well as new project affiliates.
The beginning of the 2008/09 fiscal year began with the launch of the
francophone version of the SmokeFX website (http://www.smoke-fx.com/FR/index.html). The
French version of the website was launched in the June 2008.
Plans for this fiscal include continuing to review, revise and enhance the content and design of the Youth Tobacco Vortal Project website (SmokeFX) in response to consultations with youth, affiliates, stakeholder and the Project Advisory Committee. Specifically, integrate the following changes/improvements:
- Conduct analysis regarding SmokeFX’s compliance with the Ontario Disabilities Act (ODA). Implement preliminary changes.
- Include information regarding co-morbidity factors associated with smoking (i.e., diabetes, obesity, nutrition)
- Additional Improvements: news feature on homepage (highlight affiliate news/updates), revisions to the Truth or Die quiz
In addition, update site content and links as well as continue to work
on ways to seamlessly link SmokeFX, Stupid.ca and affiliates sites.
A number of promotional activities are planned for this fiscal in order
to increase awareness of the YTVP, SmokeFX and its partner sites. One
of initiatives planned is the placement of a banner ad on the Stupid.ca
homepage.
Comments and/or questions about the Youth Tobacco Vortal Project can
be directed to Julie Duda (SmokeFX.Julie@thcu.ca).
The Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health
Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention
The Public Health Agency of Canada is in the process of updating the
Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease
Prevention — a Portal which provides easy access to information
on Best Practice Interventions for practitioners, policy-makers, researchers
and communities. [http://cbpp-pcpe.phac-aspc.gc.ca]
To further this work they have commissioned a collaborative project team from the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Toronto, Health Nexus and the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health to update the content of the Portal. The project team works in partnership with leading experts throughout Canada and Quebec.
Under the co-leadership of Reg Warren and Suzanne Jackson, the CHP is involved in developing the next set of quality assured interventions or Best Practices to be mounted on the Canadian Best Practices Portal. Alison Stirling of Health Nexus is playing a leadership role as well. The topics that will have new entries in November 2008 are mental health, immigrant health, risk communities, settings such as school, and workplace and the broad social and economic determinants of health. Thanks to Henna Aslam who has been doing the literature review for immigrant health with Suzanne.
The Canadian Best Practices Portal needs nominations of effective interventions, practices and programs, resources and/or partners/links to be added to the Portal. We are especially seeking materials relating to Canadian interventions. All interventions to be selected are to show positive evaluation results of effective practices through a well implemented study/design.
To submit a nomination, please visit the Nominations page [http://cbpp-pcpe.phac-aspc.gc.ca/nominate/index_e.cfm] or email Nina Jetha at nina_i_jetha@phac-aspc.gc.ca. Contact us to obtain updated pdfs of our selection process (Methodology), where you will find information regarding the criteria used to screen nominations. All content submitted will be vetted by a group of experts against the selection criteria.
The outcomes of this phase of Portal development will be revealed at the conference of the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada in November 2008.
For further information about the project please contact Nina Jetha (above) or Reg Warren at dynamic@ca.inter.net.
Circumpolar Chronic Disease Prevention Project
In her role as a Co-Investigator with the Circumpolar Chronic Disease
Prevention Project, Suzanne has been leading knowledge translation
training sessions in the northern Territories of Canada. These are
4-5 day workshops with First Nations and Inuit community health workers
on health promotion planning - taking data, research and literature
relevant to First Nations communities and working with the participants
to translate this into community-based health promotion programs. After
the very successful school in Whitehorse in May 2007, an additional
school will be run at the end of October 2008 and the first school
in Iqaluit will be conducted from October 3 to 8. Each event requires
about 6 months to a year of planning with local coordinators and about
15-20 people are trained. The THCU Health Promotion Planning Workbooks
have been adjusted for First People audiences with the addition of
First Nations and Inuit examples and models.
Kue Young, as the Principal Investigator of the Circumpolar Grant, has generously funded a Research Associate position at the CHP for a First Peoples’ Specialist.CHP welcomes Katherine Minich as the new RA. She is Inuit and completed her MHSc in Health Promotion at University of Toronto and has started to provide the support required to revise the documents and prepare the data and research components for these training events.
One of the key activities Katherine will be doing is to assist Suzanne in evaluating the impact of the training sessions that have been conducted in the Yukon and Nunavut. A preliminary evaluation document of the Yukon 2007 School will be prepared based on feedback at the school and a brief written survey sent out this summer, one year later. A more rigorous design will be implemented over the next year.
Canadian Diabetes Association Evaluation
In the summer of 2008, Emily Adlparvar, MHSc student, worked with Suzanne
and the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) to evaluate two modules
in their Learning Series (LS). These LS modules are presentations delivered
by volunteers or CDA staff all across Canada to give basic information
about diabetes and its prevention.
HPSS 2007 Evaluation
In the summer of 2008, Katharine Hagerman, MHSc student, worked with
Suzanne to follow-up with all participants from the Health Promotion
Summer School on Mental Health Promotion that occurred in June 2007.
This impact evaluation study one year after the event was funded by
the Ministry of Health Promotion. Results indicated that participants
with some experience in the field of health promotion were able to
introduce some changes into their practice over the past year. Barriers
and facilitators were also identified.
Evaluation of Early Parenting Programs in North Toronto
A third MHSc student working in the summer of 2008 drafted a paper for
publication from the qualitative evaluations done of the Early Parenting
Programs in north Toronto from 2003 to 2005. She also continued the
work that was started last spring to analyze the interviews from community
parents, staff and Public Health Nurses about the role of community
parents in early parenting programs. This realist evaluation analysis
related the context, the roles of the community parents, and the outcomes
of the program. This work is ongoing and will lead to some publications
and the design of an evaluation of programs with and without community
parents.
Evaluation of Impact of Sick Kids Hospital-Legal Partnership
on Determinants of Health
Suzanne and Cameron Norman are starting to set up an evaluation (process
and outcome) for a partnership between Sick Kids Hospital and law firms
aiming to deal with the policy issues needy families face around providing
appropriate support to their sick children. These are in the domain of
the determinants of health and there is interest in evaluating the impact
of this program. Funding has been received by Trillium to support this
initiative over the next three years.
2008
HEALTHY U OF T AWARDS
Chair: Geraldine (Jody) Macdonald
2008 HEALTHY U OF T AWARDS
The Healthy U of T Awards continues to be a key fall activity of the Centre. The Individual Award and the Group Award were both established as a way of recognizing individuals, groups, departments or organizations within the University of Toronto (student, staff or faculty) that have made a healthy difference through a substantial and lasting contribution to the health and well-being of campus life and/or the broader community.
Recognize your peers! Send your nominations in now!
The deadline for nominations is Friday October 30th, 2008. Awards will be presented at the Centre’s Annual General Meeting on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008.
Please go to http://www.utoronto.ca/chp/healthyawards.htm for more information and application forms
Connections to the University of Toronto
Emily Adlparvar completed a 3 month practicum at the CHP this summer. She participated in two projects: conducting a brief evaluation of the Canadian Diabetes Association's Participant Evaluation Form, and developed an Impact Evaluation Tool for the same association's learning series, or diabetes education program. In addition, she participated in the CHP's summer school helping out with whatever was needed for the even to run smoothly.
Katharine Hagerman completed a placement with Suzanne Jackson at the Centre for Health Promotion this summer. She worked on an evaluation of the Health Promotion Summer School 2007, which included evaluation design, interviews and survey data collection, analysis and initial write-up. She also began preparations and evaluation design of a participation evaluation of the Il Ngwesi Afya Project, to be conducted this winter in Il Ngwesi, Kenya. She attended and supported the Health Promotion Summer School in June
The centre for health promotion was host to Filippo Filipidis, Dina Zota, Despina Christakou, Giorgos Emmanouil, and Maira Mavromatidou from Univeristy of Athens, Greece, and Fernanda Mirella From University of Brighton. Brizillan dentist, Ana Lucia came to the Health Promotion Summer School in June 2008 and visited the Centre.
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